New Introduction, annotations, editing by Linda Pendleton.
This Short Story Collection, published in 1920 by popular author, Stewart Edward White, offers a variety of stories of the early West. His first story, and the longest, is The Killer, a suspense thriller set in Arizona in 1897, in which a young cowboy, Sanborn, accepts a dare to visit the ranch of an unpleasant and powerful man. In White’s well-crafted and suspenseful story, Sanborn discovers a young woman held captive on the ranch, and in his attempts to rescue her, he repeatedly finds himself and the woman in extreme jeopardy.
In the Road Agent story, White brings humor and surprises. The Tide is the story of three generations of a family and the challenges they face; The Ranch describes a way of life of cowboys and ranch hands on the ranches of California.
White, so well known for this colorful and inspirational narration of fauna and flora of the early West, does not let the readers down in these stories. We learn about horses, cattle, ranching, duck hunting, mountain goats, dogs, and more, as White leads us artfully through his stories.
In Linda Pendleton’s new Introduction we learn who Stewart Edward White was and the legacy he left of his many fiction and nonfiction books following his death in 1946. An explorer, conservationist, naturalist, and big game hunter, his love for nature, conservation, and adventure were to become very much a part of his literary works over his long literary career. A number of his novels were made into films. Several of his nonfiction works are classics in the exploration of the paranormal and communication from the spirit world. He wrote with passion, whether about the adventures beyond the veil or about adventures in nature and the earthly frontier.
Linda Pendleton is author of nonfiction and fiction books, comics, and ecourses. She is coauthor of the popular nonfiction book, To Dance With Angels written with her husband, Don Pendleton. Don and Linda also wrote the nonfiction, Whispers From the Soul, and the crime novel, Roulette, The Search for the Sunrise Killer; . Linda's fiction includes the Catherine Winter, Private Investigator Series; Corn Silk Days, Iowa 1862; and The Dawning. Linda is a member of the Authors Guild Inc., Sisters in Crime.
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