
THE RIDER OF THE MOHAVE
THE RIDER OF THE MOHAVE PROLOGUE—HE RIDES BY NIGHT
CHAPTER I—MANIA AND DREAMS
CHAPTER II—THE MAN HUNTER
CHAPTER III—IN WHICH WILLS COLLIDE
CHAPTER IV—LEMUEL YIELDS
CHAPTER V—THE WHEREWITHAL
CHAPTER VI—AFTERMATH
CHAPTER VII—STARTLING PREDICAMENTS
CHAPTER VIII—LAVENDER AND OLD LACE
In the restless mining camp of Geerusalem, the night is alive with the clamor of gamblers, dancers, and the occasional howl of a lone coyote. When a desperate outlaw slips through the shadows, he leaves a daring proclamation nailed to the town’s bulletin board—a $5,000 bounty for the missing Sheriff Warburton, signed with the flamboyant “Your loving bandit, Billy Gee.” The bold declaration sparks a mix of curiosity, fear, and whispered speculation among the townsfolk, setting the stage for a chase that will pull the desert’s most unlikely characters into the hunt.
Among them is Lemuel Huntington, a middle‑aged dreamer whose obsession with giving his daughter a proper education drives him toward desperate measures. As the desert heat blazes and the Mojave’s endless horizon looms, the pursuit of the elusive lawman becomes a test of loyalty, courage, and the thin line between outlaw and hero. Listeners will be drawn into a world where every dusty trail hides a secret, and every decision could tip the balance between redemption and ruin.
Language
en
Duration
~7 hours (411K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
United States: A. L. Burt Company, 1924.
Credits
Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
Release date
2022-01-17
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Best known for a desert-set Western, this early 20th-century California newspaperman brought a reporter’s eye for place and action to his fiction. His surviving work, The Rider of the Mohave, mixes adventure, romance, and crime against a vivid Mojave backdrop.
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