Front matter
Reading edition
"Madam," said I, "let me, at least, alone." Page 49.

54-40 or Fight
By Emerson Hough
Author of
The Mississippi Bubble, The Way of the Man, etc.

WITH FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS
BY ARTHUR I. KELLER
A. L. Burt Company Publishers -- New York
1909
TO Theodore Roosevelt PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND FIRM BELIEVER IN THE RULE OF THE PEOPLE THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED WITH THE LOYALTY AND ADMIRATION OF THE AUTHOR