The Girl runs the Polka saloon at Cloudy Mountain Camp and mothers the miners who adore her. Returning from Monterey she meets a stranger who reappears in camp and wins her heart, while the Sheriff, who wants her for himself, and the detective Ashby close in on a notorious bandit. Belasco turned his own stage hit into this novel.
The story behind Puccini’s opera La fanciulla del West, full of Gold Rush colour. Download the free EPUB.