Gordon Carbhoy has run up a bill of one hundred thousand dollars for wine, women and gambling by the age of twenty-four, and his iron-willed father, a railway financier, decides it is time to test him. Gordon is sent west to a raw settlement called Snake’s Fall, where he prospects, meets a girl known as Miss Hazel and makes his own bid for fortune.
A brisk Western with a railroad-baron twist from a prolific chronicler of the frontier. Download the free EPUB.