Bernice Iverson is a she-devil who runs away from her husband to San Francisco where she begins work in a business office. There she meets Dominick Ryan, a rich young man, whom she seduces and marries. When she proves unable to force her way into the rich social circle in which the Ryan's belong, she becomes infuriated and reveals her true character. Horrified, Dominick flees San Francisco in the depth of winter and goes to a mountain hotel. On the way. he encounters a terrible snow storm and is overcome by the cold. He is rescued by a volunteer search party and is carried to the hotel where he is nursed back to health by Rose, the beautiful daughter of old Bill Canon, who soon falls in love with Dominick. The story concludes in dramatic fashion as Bernice tries to manipulate the situation while Dominick struggles to free himself from her so he can marry Rose.
In the old days, the happy days, when Wyoming was a Territory with a future instead of a State with a past, and the unfenced cattle grazed upon her ranges by prosperous thousands, young Lin McLean awaked early one morning in cow camp, and lay staring out of his blankets upon the world. He would be twenty-two this week. He was the youngest cow-puncher in camp. But because he could break wild horses, he was earning more dollars a month than any man there, except one. The cook was a more indispensable person. None save the cook was up, so far, this morning. Lin's brother punchers slept about him on the ground, some motionless, some shifting their prone heads to burrow deeper from the increasing day. The busy work of spring was over, that of the fall, or beef round-up, not yet come. It was mid-July, a lull for these hard-riding bachelors of the saddle, and many unspent dollars stood to Mr. McLean's credit on the ranch books. So begins Lin McLean, the 1898 novel by Owen Wister (1860-1938), a writer best known as the author of The Virginian. The story of "A Journey in Search of Christmas" is a part of Lin McLean. It was published by Harper & Brothers as a separate book in 1904, illustrated by Frederic Remington. Below is the text of that story and the illustrations. The story of Lin McLean was made into a film in 1918, "A Woman's Fool," directed by John Ford and starring Harry Carey. The film is "presumed lost." (from Western and Cowboy Poetry Music & more athe Bar-D Ranch website)
Contents
Lin's Money Talks Joy
Lin's Money is Dumb
A Transaction in Boot-Blacking
Turkey and Responsibility
Santa Claus Lin
Accession Number
2926
Call Number
05 W75a
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Available online at Western and Cowboy Poetry Music & more athe Bar-D Ranch website
Pertains to travel to the Rocky Mountain Parks (Banff National Park) including summaries and photos and drawings of popular attractions
Notes
Cover title: Canadian National Park (Rocky Mountains) Banff, Alberta. This cover was used on page 121 of "The selling of Canada" by E. J. Hart, which indicated that this was the Canadian Government's first major tourist literature to support the efforts of the Canadian Pacific Railway
Pertains to instructions on photography in nine volumes as of 1909
Contents
v. 1. Elementary photography.--v. 2. Negative developing and after-manipulation.--v. 3. General exterior photography composition.--v. 4. Photographic printing, pt. I.--v. 5. Photographic printing, pt. II. Copying, enlarging, lantern slides.--v. 6. At-home portraiture, flashlight, interiors, lenses.--v. 7. Studio portraiture, pt. I.--v. 8. Studio portraiture, pt. II. Studio system.--v. 9. Commercial, press, scientific photography.--
Notes
Missing Volume 10 - Negative retouching, etching and modeling