Complete and unabridged, with 47 full-page plates by John Lavery, Harold Gilman and Spencer Gore. An English gentleman's gentleman is lost at poker to a beef millionaire from Washington State, and arrives in Red Gap to find that America has no idea what a valet is for. Wilson edited Puck before he wrote fiction; Charles Laughton played Ruggles reciting the Gettysburg Address in a frontier saloon, and the joke — that the servant becomes the better American — has not aged. Forty-seven plates spanning 1868 to 1919 range from Orpen's New English Art Club to Hitchcock's Hawaiian sunsets, matching a tale that crosses an ocean and a continent.
