"A Cathcart or a Riggs?"

Author: Roy Norton
Language: English
Subjects: Short stories · Western stories · Women · Reformers · Mining camps
Shelves: Category: Short Stories · Category: American Literature

The opening, in English.

Author of “A Reformed Reformer,” “Swords Out for Spain,” Etc.

Just who _was_ that Pearl Brown woman, who was so darned snappy and defiant in that hard-boiled Western mining town? “Circumlocutory” Smith and his friend, Fosdike, were curious enough to make a bet on it, but their speculations had to be abandoned for a time in deference to the amazing developments when Horace Ring, fighting editor of the _Weekly Star_, carried his reforming campaign into the neighboring town of Placer City.

Shortly after that pleasant and profitable day on which Mrs. Pearl Brown knocked out Mr. Patrick Sheedy with a pair of brass knuckles, called Mr. Horace Ring, “The Reformer,” a chump, and satirically expressed her opinion of Mr. “Trigger” Smith’s celerity and prowess with a gun, she, too, caught the mania for reformation that had contagiously divided the mountain town of Murdock into numerous more or less v…

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