This stranger goes by the name Honorable Patches. It is obvious to the other employees of the ranch that he is hiding his past and trying to create a radically different future. The men Patches encoun
Few works of American fiction have proved as enduringly popular as Harold Bell Wright's The Shepherd of the Hills. Wright's novel, first published in 1907, was an instant best seller; by 1918 the book
As a boy, Dick Falkner ran away from poverty and an abusive father. Sixteen years later, he finds himself hungry of body and spirit. Taken in by George Udell, a local publisher and kindhearted man, he
