• Two very different books by American western writer Emerson Hough are in this Kindle eBook: The Purchase Price and The Covered Wagon
The Purchase Price (1910)
A Kentucky tale set after the American Revolution.
The Covered Wagon
This love triangle is an adventure involving a wagon train on its way west before the California Gold Rush.
About The Author
Iowa-born Emerson Hough (1857–1923) was a lawyer in New Mexico who wrote western stories including:
1. Girl at the Halfway House, 1900
2. The Mississippi Bubble, 1902
3. Law of the Land, 1905
4. The Magnificent Adventure
5. Heart's Desire, 1905
6. Maw’s Vacation 1921 (A novella)
7. Story of the Outlaw, 1906
8. Way of a Man, 1907
9. 54-40 or Fight, 1909
10. The Purchase Price, 1910
11. Man Next Door, 1916
12. Broken Gate, 1917
13. Passing of the Frontier, 1918
14. The Sagebrusher, 1919
15. The Covered Wagon, 1922