Errol Banneker is a well-read railway station agent at Manzanita, a desert town in the Southwest, when a stranded train brings him into contact with a young woman from New York society. He follows the trail east, makes his name as a reporter and editor, and finds that a big-city newspaper rewards a man in ways that can quietly ruin him.
A long, absorbing 1921 novel of journalism and ambition by the muckraker who exposed patent medicines. Download the free EPUB.