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Resumo de Cavanagh, guarda florestal
- 8 min de leitura
- 10 parts
- Áudio em breve
A schooled girl comes home to a filthy frontier boardinghouse, where a forest ranger shows her a cleaner West.
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Cavanagh, guarda florestal em resumo
Resumo: 8 min de leitura
- Tempo de leitura
- Cerca de 5 h 5 min4 h 5 min fast, 6 h 5 min slow
- Duração
- 72.800 palavras
- Nível na biblioteca
- Médio longer sentences, everyday words
- Primeira publicação
- 1910by Hamlin Garland
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Cavanagh, guarda florestal in short
Cavanagh, Forest Ranger follows Lee Virginia Wetherford from her disappointing return to Roaring Fork to her growing partnership with a ranger who guards the mountains. Along the way she cleans a filthy hotel, faces a rowdy town, and learns what the new West is trying to build. The book is about land, law and love.
What Cavanagh, guarda florestal is about
What happens when a girl who has dreamed of the old frontier for ten years finally steps back into it? Lee Virginia Wetherford expects spurred cowboys and a mother who is glad to see her. She finds a motor car where the stagecoach used to run, a town buzzing with flies, and a mother who tells her to go away.
Cavanagh, Forest Ranger is a novel by Hamlin Garland, a romance of the mountain West. He sets a love story inside the years when the national forests were new and the open range was closing. You get a courtship, an adventure and a sharp argument about who owns the land.
Para quem é. Readers who enjoy Western adventure with a conscience will love this book, as will anyone drawn to mountain scenery, brave heroines, or the early days of American conservation.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
Lee Virginia Finds the West Has Changed
Lee Virginia Wetherford starts her journey in high spirits. She has spent ten years with an aunt near Philadelphia, and she carries a picture of the West as a place of bold cowboys, with her own father as a free and daring leader.
The old stagecoach is gone. A shining red automobile now makes the trip to Roaring Fork in five hours. Along the road she sees wire fences and painted farmhouses where only sagebrush grew before. Sam Gregg curses the ranger Ross Cavanagh, and passengers criticize the food served by Lee's mother, leaving Lee crimson and burning.
Her mother's boardinghouse is worse than the gossip. Flies swarm over the tablecloths, and a fly floats in Lee's coffee. Her mother, Lize, greets her without warmth and says she told her to stay East. That night the bed crawls with vermin, and Lee ends the day dressed and standing on the floor.
A remembered past can be glorious, but a present that needs your hands deserves a clear look.
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A Ranger Gives Her a Reason to Stay
The next morning Lee decides to leave.
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Redfield Says the Old West Must Go
At that same lunch, the talk turns to politics.
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Elk Lodge Brings Two Hearts Close
Elk Lodge, the Redfields' log house at the mouth of a canyon, feels to Lee like a gift.
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A Ram's Head Starts a Night of Siege
One morning Cavanagh hears two rifle shots on Sheep Mountain, where he protects wild mountain sheep.
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An Old Herder and a Stricken Camp
The next day Cavanagh rides home, wrestling with his feelings for Lee.
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Smoke on the Mountain and a Fallen Chief
On his way to a telephone, Cavanagh sees smoke rising from a rocky hillside.
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Grass, Law and the Fight to Protect the Land
The central quarrel in the book is over who owns the land.
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Blood, Class and What Makes a Person
The second theme is heredity and class.
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A Romance Told Through Scenes and Contrasts
Garland tells the story in short chapters, each built around a strong scene.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Lee Virginia Wetherford A refined young woman who returns from the East to help her mother and finds her own strength in a rough town.
- Ross Cavanagh An English-born forest ranger and former Rough Rider who guards the mountains and struggles between love and duty.
- Lize Wetherford Lee's blunt, ailing mother, who runs a shabby boardinghouse and shows unexpected courage when the law is threatened.
- Hugh Redfield The Forest Supervisor, a former cattleman turned reformer who believes the old range must give way to law.
- Sam Gregg A loud, greedy sheepman who fights the Forest Service and resents its restrictions on his flocks.
- Joe Gregg Sam's idle son, a poacher and half-hearted suitor who drifts between mischief and a wish to reform.
- Neill Ballard A vain Wild West show roper who torments Lee and leads the town's rougher men against the ranger.
- Eleanor Redfield The supervisor's refined wife, who longs for city comforts and fears Ross will marry beneath his family.
How it ends (spoiler)
Wetherford dies of smallpox in the ranger's care, and Cavanagh keeps the secret that the old herder was Lee's father. Lize tells Lee she is only her stepmother. Cavanagh burns the cabin to stop the plague, avoids illness, and keeps his post with a promotion ahead. He asks Lee to marry him, and she says yes. At Elk Lodge he kisses her, and they begin their home in the New West.
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Dúvidas sobre Cavanagh, guarda florestal
What is Cavanagh, Forest Ranger about?
It follows Lee Virginia Wetherford, who returns to a rough Western town and meets Ross Cavanagh, a forest ranger. Their growing love is set against fights over grazing land, poaching, mob violence and the first days of conservation.
Who wrote Cavanagh, Forest Ranger and when?
Hamlin Garland, an American author who died in 1940, wrote it. It was set in the years when national forests and the Forest Service were new, and the old cattle range was giving way to farms and law.
What is the New West in the book?
The New West is the vision of Redfield and Cavanagh. It means law, clean homes, farms and public forests managed for everyone, in place of free range, lynch law and the rule of the strongest cattleman.
Is Cavanagh, Forest Ranger a true story?
It is fiction, but it draws on real history. The cattle invasion, the range wars between sheepmen and cattlemen, and the creation of the Forest Service under Theodore Roosevelt and the Chief Forester all shape the setting.
Is the book worth reading today?
It offers a lively romance, vivid mountain scenery, and an early look at debates about public land that continue now. Readers who like Westerns with a social purpose often find it rewarding.
Cite esta edição
Garland, Hamlin. Cavanagh, Forest Ranger. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/cavanagh-forest-ranger.
Garland, H. (2026). Cavanagh, forest ranger. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/cavanagh-forest-ranger (Original work published 1910)
Garland, Hamlin. Cavanagh, Forest Ranger. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/cavanagh-forest-ranger.
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