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On Christmas Eve in a snowy Northwest cattle town, Wanderin’ Jones sits in a saloon and learns of a brewing quarrel between two cowboy brothers over the same girl. The story follows him as he goes to the girl’s home, where music, a family gathering, and the arrival of Archie Bell draw out his buried feelings from years of wandering. When Archie reaches the porch, Wanderin’ intervenes and is invited inside by the young woman.
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Charles Christian Young’s account records travels through European and Asiatic Russia beginning in 1907 and later trips into St. Petersburg, West Turkestan, Bokhara, and the northern border of Afghanistan. It is framed by acknowledgments to Russian and American officials who helped secure introductions, permits, and access, and it gathers material from earlier articles on Russian life, politics, and perceptions of America. The book also reflects the author’s conversations with Russian acquaintances about American race relations, mob violence, and ideas of civilization.
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Dobie Dalton writes to Hank about his uneasy life in a frontier town near Mesquite City, where he is married to Emmeline and tied by marriage to the hard-edged Uncle Gabe Galesburg. After Gabe buys the Manzanita stage line and makes Dobie his manager, Dobie complains that he is treated like a mere driver and clashes with his partner while worrying about stage holdups and business control. The story also introduces Devil Creek Davis, a taciturn acquaintance whom Dobie later deputizes to take a stage to Manzanita.
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A short story about Cynthia Bates, a young sales clerk, and Queenie, a girl troubled by an attachment to a married man. As they walk from the store toward Queenie’s home, Cynthia tries to help her resist the relationship and imagines she can guide her toward a better future. The story also shows Cynthia’s own pride in her work and the contrast between her ambitions and Queenie’s uncertain prospects.
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Sherwood Anderson’s Tar is a memoir-like account of his attempt to write about his own childhood while questioning the truthfulness of self-narration. He reflects on growing up in a Midwestern American town, on family members who might object to being portrayed, and on how imagination reshapes ordinary childhood incidents into stories.
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This story follows Cynthia Bates during a springtime walk and conversation with Richard, a man who has been keeping her company through the season. Their talk turns to marriage, freedom, and the difference between Richard’s life and Cynthia’s more guarded one, while his touch and easy confidence unsettle her. The walk is shadowed by his announcement that he must leave soon, forcing Cynthia to confront what his presence has come to mean to her.
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Set in England, this domestic novel follows Miss Hannah Mole, a middle-aged woman who works as a companion and other household help without a home of her own. It presents her among employers in Radstowe, including Mrs. Widdows and Mrs. Gibson, as she reflects on the tensions, deceptions, and small freedoms of her daily life while moving through the streets of the town.
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In Pineville on a quiet Sunday morning, Sheriff Pat Lynch and deputy Oscar Johnson deal with the aftermath of a wrecked buggy after a rough night out. While examining the damage behind the Stormy River Saloon, they notice a man lying by a corral and discover that Buck Dennig has been killed. The story begins as the two men shift from a private mishap to a sudden death in town.
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Cynthia Bates, a young woman at a university summer setting, moves between tennis, her work, and an increasingly charged connection with Mr. Preston, a gray-haired man who seems to expect more from her than she intends to give. Around her, conversations with Mona turn to marriage, desire, and the different futures available to women, while Cynthia insists she wants to stay and work. The story follows her growing uncertainty as she weighs the man, her ambitions, and the social pressure to choose.
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Cynthia, a teenage girl, chafes against her mother’s rules as she tries to visit Mrs. Moore, a newcomer in town whom her mother distrusts. On the way, she slips away into the woods, where she is absorbed by spring growth and finds wild flowers, especially a hepatica she carefully digs up. The journey to Mrs. Moore’s house becomes for Cynthia a private struggle between childhood restraint and a new sense of self.
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Set along the Mexican border during the period after Pancho Villa’s raid on Columbus, the story follows a U.S. Army regiment posted near Tia Juana on routine patrol duty. The narrator, an experienced corporal, watches younger soldiers turn the assignment into a romance, especially Dale Hawkins, who becomes captivated by a local shopgirl. The corporal’s own attention shifts when he meets the woman and tries to judge what kind of person she is.
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In Piperock and Yaller Rock County, Ike Harper and Dirty Shirt Jones encounter a proclamation and a local push to make the county dry. As they travel toward town, they meet residents and a preacherly reformer who denounces liquor and talks of closing the grog-shops, while another man complains about his right to drink and carry home enough alcohol for his needs. The story centers on the brewing temperance campaign and the townspeople’s reactions to it.
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Ike Harper and Magpie Simpkins share a cabin on Plenty Stone Creek, where Magpie’s impulse to gamble leads him into a wager with Tellurium Woods. After reading about a man who lived naked in the wilderness for thirty days, Magpie bets he can do the same, and the men draw up a written agreement while Ike is left holding the stake. Magpie then heads into the Medicine Hills to begin the challenge, and the story soon brings Professor Phinney, his wife, and Doctor Doolittle to the cabin.
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At the Cross J ranch, the narrator Hen Peck describes a small crew of punchers led by old man Whittaker, along with their habits, songs, and grievances. The story centers on the ranch cook, first a Chinese man replaced after a mishap and then Harelip Hansen, whose terrible cooking draws complaints from the men and even from the pet magpie Cyclops. The magpie’s backstory and the ranch hands’ talk establish a comic western setting full of rough speech, music, and eccentric characters.
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Helen R. Hull’s book is a set of four short stories centered on a coastal town in southern New England and the changes brought by a late-September hurricane. One story focuses on Margaret Turner, a mathematics teacher who has bought an old family-linked house near the shore and lets visitors believe her connection to the land is more ancestral and enduring than it is. The setting includes the Lathrop property, the town’s roads, docks, and bay, and the contrast between old local history and newer summer development.
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