The five o’clock whistle of the Asgard mine sounds over the foothills of northern California, where the company paints everything “monopoly brown” and young Thane falls for Daphne. The other stories, The Maid’s Progress, Pilgrims to Mecca and The Harshaw Bride, follow women and men in the mining camps and settlements of the West.
Quietly observant Western fiction by the writer whose life inspired Stegner’s Angle of Repose. Download the free EPUB.