The Girl at the Halfway House (Classic Reprint): A Story of the Plains - Softcover

Hough, E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330096657 ISBN 13: 9781330096659

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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For two years Colonel Fairfax had been with his regiment, fighting for what he considered the welfare of his country and for the institutions in Whose justice he had been taught to believe. There remained at the old Fairfax home in Louisburg only the wife of Colonel Fairfax and the son Henry, the latter chafing at a part which seemed to him so obviously ignoble. One by one his comrades, even younger than himself, departed and joined the army hastening forward toward the throbbing guns. Spirited and proud, restive under com parisons which he had never heard but always dreaded to hear, Henry Fairfax begged his mother to let him go, though still She said, Not yet.

But the lines of the enemy tightened ever about Louisburg. Then came a day - a fatal day fraught with the tidings of what seemed a double death. The wife of Colonel Henry Fairfax was grande dame that day, when she buried her hus band and sent away her son. There were yet tradi tions to support.

Henry Fairfax said good-bye to Mary Ellen upon the gallery of the old home, beneath a solemn.

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About The Author About The Author Emerson Hough (1857–1923) was an American author best known for writing western stories and historical novels. Hough was born in Newton, Iowa on June 28, 1857. He was in Newton High School's first graduating class of three in 1875. He graduated from the University of Iowa with a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1880 and later studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1882. His first article, "Far From The Madding Crowd," was published in Forest and Stream in 1882. He moved to White Oaks, New Mexico, practiced law there, and wrote for the White Oaks newspaper Golden Era for a year and a half, returning to Iowa when his mother was ill. He later wrote a novel, Story of the Outlaw, a study of the western desperado, which included profiles of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett. Hough moved to New Mexico after Garrett shot Billy the Kid, and he became a friend of Garrett. He wrote for various newspapers in Des Moines, Iowa, Sandusky, Ohio, Chicago, Illinois, St. Louis, Missouri, and Wichita, Kansas. In 1889 he got a position as western editor of Forest and Stream, editing the "Chicago and the West" column. He was hired by George Bird Grinnell, the owner of Field and Stream, who founded the Audubon Society in 1886 which, along with Theodore Roosevelt's Boone and Crockett Club, was a leader in the conservation movement. His books Include: 1. Girl at the Halfway House, 1900 2. The Mississippi Bubble, 1902 3. Way to the West, 1903 4. Law of the Land, 1905 5. Heart's Desire, 1905 6. King of Gee-Whiz, 1906 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

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• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330096657
• ISBN 13: 9781330096659
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 390