The land is often pictured as lonely, but the lone way of a human being's essential self is not for this extravert world.
"Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest"
J. Frank Dobie
His very use of the word intellectual on the second page of his book; his estimate of Milton and Gladstone, adjacent to talk about a frontier saloon; his consciousness of his own inner growth-something no extravert cowboy ever noticed, usually because he did not have it; his quotation to express harmony with nature: I have some kinship to the bee, I am boon brother with the tree; The breathing earth is part of me- all indicate a refinement that any gambler could safely bet originated in the East and not in Texas or the South.
"Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest"
J. Frank Dobie