Mary Hallock Foote
The Led-Horse Claim: A Romance of a Mining Camp
Paperback
(Forgotten Books April 19, 2018)
Excerpt from The Led-Horse Claim: A Romance of a Mining CampIt was, perhaps, this immense, though nu disciplined, force of sanguine youth which saved the city. The dangerous elements of the camp the mud, the weeds, and the drift wood which would have choked a more sluggish current - were floated and swept onward by its strong tide. The new board sidewalks resounded to the clean step of many an indomitable, bright-faced boy, cadet of some good Eastern family, and neophyte in the business of earning a living, with a joyous belief in his own abilities and a clean record to imperil in proving them. The older men, who had come with a slightly shaken faith in themselves, looked half compassion ately, half enviously, at these knights of the virgin Shield.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
- ISBN
- 1330880528 / 9781330880524
- Pages
- 306
- Weight
- 14.6 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 0.6 in.
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