Mamma's Boarding House Author:John D. Fitzgerald There was more to the settling of the West than the battles between Cattle Barons and Sheepmen, Outlaws and Posses, White Men and Indians, Ranchers and Homesteaders which have been told in story and song over and over again. — There were other people who helped put down the roots of the West: the banker, the editor, the schoolteacher, the judge, ... more »the clergyman, the merchant, the artist, the saloonkeeper, the miner, the town drunk and the town bully.