Western Reflections is reprinting an engaging, historical autobiography for the general public -- The Snow-Shoe Itinerant. Reverend John Dyer, an intrepid Methodist minister, came to Colorado in 1861 at the ripe old-age of forty-nine, but soon fit in as one of the boys in the remote mining towns he served. Father Dyer, as he was respectfully called by the locals, was very well liked among the miners and prospectors. He frequently preached in saloons after politely asking customers to suspend their drinking and gambling for the interim. And, sometimes toting a gun, he would confront drunkards...