Ironheart

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Ironheart

by William MacLeod Raine

EN·~7 hours

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Description

In this sun‑scorched Western, three wanderers pitch their battered camp beside a wavering wheat field, each embodying a different shade of the road‑life. York, the self‑styled “blowed‑in‑the‑glass stiff,” boasts a lifetime of rail‑hopping and a sharp disdain for the “stew‑bums” he considers his peers, while his hulking companion lounges under willows with a pipe clenched between cracked teeth, a living caricature of a traveling showman. The third, a gaunt, prison‑marked figure called Cig, drifts westward to escape the heat of the East, his cold eyes hinting at a past of hard‑won crimes and a restless yearning for something beyond the desolate plains.

Together they set out across the unforgiving desert, their banter a mix of swagger and suspicion, each testing the limits of loyalty and survival. As the heat rises and the landscape stretches into endless horizon, their uneasy partnership begins to reveal hidden motives, promising a trail fraught with danger, camaraderie, and the raw grit of the American frontier.

Details

Language

en

Duration

~7 hours (423K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1923.

Credits

Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2023-11-06

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

William MacLeod Raine

William MacLeod Raine

1871–1954

Best known for fast-moving Westerns, this British-born American novelist turned frontier settings into vivid, popular adventures. He wrote prolifically for decades, with stories ranging from cowboys and rangers to the Klondike.

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