Third Edition
Barbara, the heroine of Mr. Whitson’s first Western novel, is the loyal wife of a self-centred man of literary tastes, living on a ranch in Kansas. “Barbara is a fresh, breezy sort of a girl; and the account of her life and ultimate happiness, as described by Mr. Whitson, makes one of the best stories of the season,” says the St. Paul Globe.
“We are carried from one scene to another with an ease and expeditiousness that plainly betokens the author’s familiarity with the length and breadth of the Western country, and the people he so vividly portrays,” says the San Francisco News-Letter.
Hon. John D. Long, ex-Secretary of the Navy, in a letter to the author, says: “You have the story-teller’s art. I like especially those portions of the book which treat of Western scenes and life—the homestead, the plain, the prairie, the pioneer’s experience, the mining camp, Cripple Creek, and Pike’s Peak. You bring out the growth of the country, the speculative ups and downs, the mountain curves of the narrow railroads; and the winter scene with the dangerous trip over the mountain from Feather Bow is very graphic.”
LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., Publishers
BOSTON, MASS.
A Stirring Tale of the Plains
THE RAINBOW CHASERS
By JOHN H. WHITSON