Cloth. 12mo. $1.50.
Like his earlier book, "The Gospel of Freedom," which was hailed as "the great American social novel," this deals with social conditions in the young West.
One of the strongest stories of the summer.... It is strong in that it faithfully depicts many phases of American life, and uses them to strengthen a web of fiction, which is most artistically wrought out.—Buffalo Illustrated Express.
Of more than ordinary literary and artistic merit, and the lesson one learns from it will no doubt be a wholesome one.
The greatest story of American social life ... ever contributed to American fiction.—Inter-Ocean, Chicago.
As a story it is absorbing.—The Bookman.
Most emphatically worth reading.—Boston Budget.
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