OWEN WISTER
Reproduction of the original: Lin McLean by Owen Wister
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The busy work of spring was over, that of the fall, or beef round-up, not yet come. It was mid-July, a lull for these hard-riding bachelors of the saddle, and many unspent dollars stood to Mr. McLean's credit on the ranch books.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
The Virginian, Lin McLean, Red Men and White (Owen Wister Masterpiece Collection)
A hapless miner kills his mistress, the putative proprietor of the dancehall—in fact the madam of a brothel— because she has taken another lover. The miner frames his rival for her murder, and the rival is hanged, but then the miner in ...