シュー・バー・ストラットンのあらすじ

The story in 7 parts

1. Key idea 1 · free to read

   A soldier comes home to a stolen ranch

   The book opens at the little station of Paloma Springs, where Buck Stratton stands in the September heat and breathes deeply. He bought the Shoe-Bar ranch in western Arizona just before he enlisted. Now he is home after two years, and an ordinary cow town feels like cool water.

   A shadow crosses his face as he thinks of the missing year. A bullet at Belleau Wood pressed on his brain. He has recovered his old memories, and he learned that he had been called Robert Green while unidentified. He wants only to forget the whole strange business.

   In the store he meets Pop Daggett, who tells the ranch's story to anyone who stands still. The Shoe-Bar now belongs to a woman named Mary Thorne. Her father, Andrew Thorne of Chicago, arrived with the sheriff and a deed claiming Buck sold the place a few weeks before he sailed. Thorne died four months ago when a paint horse threw him.

   Buck knows he sold nothing. Thorne was a lawyer he trusted with his papers, so forgery seems the only answer. He gives Pop the name Bob Green, buys chaps, boots, and a Colt, and rents a roan. Pop warns him off, but Buck rides the eighteen miles anyway.

   A man who returns from the dead learns that the world has moved on without him, and he must choose how much to say.

2. 2

   He gets hired on his own ranch

   On the trail Buck passes a rider with black eyes and red cheeks, who stares at him and rushes by.

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3. 3

   A shot in the night and a watching house

   Buck wakes near midnight to a strange stillness.

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4. 4

   A mystery pasture and a knife in the dark

   Lynch now gives Buck the worst work on the roundup and the night watches.

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5. 5

   A woman from the lost year, and a plague

   Soon Lynch drives to town and returns with a woman beside him.

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6. 6

   A man with two names, and the girl who trusts

   Identity is the book's first theme.

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7. 7

   A tale told in cliffhangers and open country

   Ames tells the story in short chapters, most ending on a surprise.

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