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The story in 10 parts

1. Key idea 1 · free to read

   A dusty stage ride brings two worlds together

   The story opens on the stage line from Williams to Bear Tooth, where a battered coach crosses one hundred and twenty miles of Colorado twice a week. Beside the driver, Bill McCoy, sits a pale young man from Connecticut who has come to rebuild his lungs. Bill is quick to label strangers, so the tourist soon becomes a lunger in his mind.

   Two riders race down from a ranch to stop the coach, and the tourist takes them for bandits. Bill laughs at him, for they are girls. One is Berea McFarlane, going home after weeks in the East. Everyone along the route greets her warmly.

   They walk ahead of the coach to a grove of old cedars that moan in the wind. He finds the place ghostly, and she admits the trees look like poor old women. When the stage reaches Bear Tooth at night, a tall man greets her, and Norcross assumes he is her cowboy lover. First impressions in this book are generous and wrong at once.

2. 2

   Berrie rescues a tenderfoot in the rain

   Norcross wakes in a cold hotel room in a bare, ugly town.

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3. 3

   The mill brings pranks, a friend, and a warning

   At Meeker's the cowhands set out to break the tenderfoot.

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4. 4

   A golden trail leads to a cold camp

   Berrie's father, Supervisor McFarlane, agrees to make Norcross a guard.

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5. 5

   A storm strands the pair and tests them

   In the morning McFarlane goes to look for the horses, which have wandered off.

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6. 6

   A rival girl and a fight on the pass

   The next morning a party rides up to the cabin, including the gossip Mrs. Belden and a young woman named Siona Moore.

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7. 7

   Gossip spreads and a telegram calls Wayland away

   They reach the ranch in the dark, and Mrs. McFarlane puts the wounded Wayland to bed.

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8. 8

   Strength and weakness trade places

   The book's central surprise is that the heroine is the strong one.

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9. 9

   Two worlds and the price of a reputation

   The second theme is the gap between East and West.

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10. 10

    How Garland tells the tale

    Garland tells the story with a gentle comic voice and warm descriptions of land and weather.

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