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Resumen de Polvo del desierto
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Readers who love Wild West adventure, railroad boom towns, gamblers and gunfighters, and a romance that grows under pressure. It suits anyone who enjoys a young man's coming of age in a rough, vivid landscape.
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Desert Dust is a frontier adventure by Edwin L. Sabin, set in the summer of 1868 as the Union Pacific Railway pushes across Wyoming Territory. It follows Frank Beeson, a young man of twenty-five from Albany, New York. His doctors send him west to find a place high and dry for his weak lungs. He gets far more than air.
The book gives you a close, lively picture of the end-of-track boom towns that sprang up and vanished with the rails. You meet gamblers, touts, trainmen, freighters and a Mormon wagon train, all seen through the eyes of a greenhorn who learns fast and pays for it. It is a tale of romance, cards, guns and the desert.
The story begins on a train out of Omaha, where Frank cannot take his eyes off a woman in black with deep blue eyes. She is going to the same place he is, a town called Benton.
En este resumen
- 1A greenhorn chases blue eyes westFree
- 2Warnings and winks along the line
- 3Benton is dust, shams and prices
- 4Robbed twice in one night
- 5The bent card and the lost twenty dollars
- 6Mules, Mormons and a morning note
- 7Montoyo rides in and Daniel draws
- 8A fight that cannot be avoided
- 9What the book is really about
- 10How the story is told
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A greenhorn chases blue eyes west
Frank Beeson buys a ticket in Omaha for Benton, in Wyoming Territory, because his doctors want him somewhere high and dry. The ticket agent is surprised by the question about a hotel in a place like that, and he laughs. He tells Frank the track is moving west two or three miles a day, so the end of the line could change at any hour.
While Frank stands at the window, a woman in black steps up behind him. She is small and fair, with golden hair and very blue eyes. She buys a ticket to Benton too. When a coin slips from her hand, Frank darts after it, and she lets him ask where she is headed.
She tells him that in Benton you can get whatever you want. Then she disappears into the Ladies' Waiting Room. Frank has never been west of Cincinnati, and he is already lost in her profile.
On the train, a large, talkative woman takes the seat beside him. She runs an eating house in North Platte and she is sure Frank is a gambler or a fool. She begs him to get off in her strictly moral town. Frank refuses. He says later that he bitterly regretted it.
Every stranger he meets agrees on one thing. Benton is high and dry. Each says it with a knowing smile that Frank cannot yet read.
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Questions about Polvo del desierto
What is Desert Dust about?
It follows Frank Beeson, a young man from Albany sent west for his health in 1868. He rides the Union Pacific to the end of track at Benton, where gamblers, a mysterious woman and a Mormon wagon train change his life.
Is Benton, Wyoming Territory, a real place?
Benton was a real end-of-track town on the Union Pacific line in 1868, one of the temporary boom towns that appeared and vanished as the railroad moved west. Sabin builds his story around it.
Who is the woman in black?
She is a fair, blue-eyed woman who meets Frank in Omaha and travels west with him. She is tied to a gambler named Montoyo, and she later asks Frank to help her escape. She is called Edna in the Mormon camp.
What does high and dry mean in the book?
Frank's doctors want him somewhere with high, dry air for his weak lungs. Everyone he meets repeats the phrase with a joke, since Benton is also dry of water, high in prices and a place where money runs out.
Is Desert Dust easy to follow?
Yes, the story moves in short chapters with plenty of talk, vivid scenes and a narrator who tells his own mistakes with humor. The plot follows one journey from Omaha to the Wyoming desert and is easy to follow.