Cowboy

THE LAST RUSTLER--Lee Sage--Little, Brown ($3).

Lee Sage, onetime rustler (horse-thief, cattle-thief), cowboy, broncobuster, sheriff, moonshiner, lived a rough life. Now he is in the movies. Rustler Sage's book is a loud, boastful, colorful account of a loud, boastful, colorful career.

His father was member of a gang of rustlers who ran cattle from Montana to the Mexican border. Young Lee soon found out what it was all about. When his father and mother quarreled, Lee ran away. He joined some Ute Indians, learned all about horses and cattle, became their No. 1 broncobuster. Says Buster Sage: no man should stay too long on a bucker; 20 seconds is plenty. Once he stayed 30, and was sick and dizzy afterwards; when he stayed three minutes, he had to be carried off, bleeding from the nose and mouth.

At 16 he left the Indians, wandered up and down the West. When Prohibition came, Rustler Sage married, took to moonshining, gave it up after three years because of what his children would think of him if he went to jail. He and his wife never got along. Finally he left her and his three children, rode away and never came back.

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