Nan Carroll was Attorney John Morgan's capable private secretary ... "Almost a junior partner in the firm," insisted Willis Todd, Nan's only boy friend. It was Willis, too, who made Nan realize that she was in love with Morgan, Morgan who idolized his beautiful selfish wife, Iris. Shocked at finding herself in love with a married man, Nan decided to resign her position.
Circumstances made this impossible, however, and before she could carry out her resolve, a swift series of thrilling happenings threatened to change the course of six lives.
Here are characters you will recognize as real, faced with problems of absorbing interest. Romance and marriage, mother love and heartlessness, woven together to produce a story genuinely thrilling.
Anne Austin has succeeded in writing another story of compelling interest. When you learn the problems that face the figures in this book, you will want to read the solution.
A thrilling, red-blooded tale of a picturesque character against the background of hell-roaring towns where men drank, quarreled, killed and went about their business; of primeval passions ruling the hearts of men who blazed the path of an Empire; a true story of the early days of the Southwest.
Gordon Lillie, as Pawnee Bill, the hero of countless men and boys of this and past generations, stood in the doorway of the restaurant in Caldwell one Saturday afternoon. Before him were cattle thieves, horse thieves, Indians, desperadoes, women with hard eyes and painted cheeks. He stood on the threshold of a career that was to be one of the most colorful and stirring in the annals of the glamorous Southwest.
More than a novel because far stranger than fiction, THE BLAZING HORIZON is an authentic account of the opening of Oklahoma, a swift and vivid recital of the struggle of thousands to gain a niche in the blazing horizon.
Starting in the eighties, it carries one on a wave of breathless excitement through the great rush of the Boomers, 50,000 strong, who stormed their way into the new territory; through days of hardships and adventure; through hair-raising episodes of courage and chivalry; through all the pains of the birth of a new country.
Against this picturesque background, Ernest Lynn here pictures a delightful romance, written after months of patient first-hand research tracing the career of Pawnee Bill and the birth of Oklahoma.