A Girl of the Plains Country
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About This Book
'A Girl of the Plains Country' is one of Alice MacGowan's finest works. It is the story of a family who arrives by stagecoach to small town Mesquite. They have traveled all the way from New York - a little girl with dark curls, a woman wearing silk stockings and heels, and a man in a flannel shirt and jeans, carrying his young baby. They are the Van Brunt family. It is a sixty-mile trip to the Three Sorrows Ranch, and during that time, Hank Pearsall gets a chance to be acquainted with the family, especially young Hilda Van Brunt. She decides to call him 'Uncle Hank'. The family try to fit into...
Chapters (33)
- A GIRL OF THE PLAINS COUNTRY
- I: The Arrival
- II: An Affair of the Heart
- III: The Firing Squad
- IV: The Doll
- V: Poor Charley
- VI: A Child’s World
- VII: The Norther
- VIII: A Christmas Valentine
- IX: Stockings and Shoes
- X: The Carriage
- XI: The Roping Match
- XII: The Fugitive
- XIII: The-Boy-on-the-Train
- XIV: Some One Rides Away
- XV: No Questions Asked
- XVI: “Twen-ty—Sev-en—Hun-dred—Cat-tle!”
- XVII: With the Trail-Herd
- XVIII: Sunday Comes Back
- XIX: Hilda and the Flying M’s
- XX: Hilda and the Blue Roan
- XXI: Another Chance
- XXII: Young Wings
- XXIII: At the Alamositas
- XXIV: “Invitation to the Dance”
- XXV: The Dance at Grainger’s
- XXVI: As Maybelle Saw It
- XXVII: Old Man Hipp’s Steer
- XXVIII: The Closing of a Door
- XXIX: The Resurrection Plant
- XXX: The Return
- XXXI: A Telegram
- XXXII: An Arrival
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