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Desert Dust

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First published: 1922
Pages: 204

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Set in Wyoming Territory in the summer of 1868, this Western follows a young Easterner who leaves New York State on his physicians' advice, hoping the high, dry air will mend his health. He rides the rails to the end of the line, a raw construction town thrown up where the Union Pacific is still laying track. On the train he falls in with a striking woman bound for the same place, and their uneasy acquaintance runs alongside his slow, hard schooling in a settlement crowded with gamblers, saloons, Mormon emigrants, and Sioux country just beyond. Edwin L. Sabin, a careful chronicler of the frontier, turns the boomtown chaos of the transcontinental railroad into a story about a greenhorn learning what the West actually costs.

Available edition: text of Project Gutenberg eBook #27437. The cover is an original BDeBooks design. The PDF has 204 pages; the EPUB is reflowable. Project Gutenberg credits and license are kept.

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Edwin L. Sabin

Edwin Legrand Sabin (1870-1952) was an American writer who worked as a newspaper reporter before turning to books full time. He built a long career on Western and frontier fiction, along with popular histories and boys' adventure stories about scouts, wagon trails, and the building of the railroads.

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