The Moccasin Ranch

A Story of Dakota

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The Moccasin Ranch is a story of Dakota by Hamlin Garland. The contents list names sections among others headed March, May and June. Two wagons moved slowly out of Boomtown, the two-year-old giant of the plains, in the gray and red dawn of a March morning in 1883. Burke looked away to the west, where a long, blue bank lay low down on the horizon, hardly more substantial than a line of cloud.

Bailey kept his eyes on their backward trail, watching for his partner, Rivers. The only English-speaking woman within three miles was old Mrs. Bussy, who swore and smoked a pipe, and Mrs. Burke derived little comfort from the presence of Mrs. Bussy.

About the author

Hamlin Garland

A boyhood on farms in Wisconsin, Iowa and Dakota Territory gave Hamlin Garland the material he worked for fifty years. Born in 1860 near West Salem, Wisconsin, he left for Boston in 1884, read Henry George in the public library, and turned single-tax anger into fiction that refused to make prairie farming look picturesque.