Quirt

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2011
• eBook ISBN: 9781775453116
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Literature
• Index: Literature

Prolific Western writer Bertha Muzzy Bower penned dozens of novels detailing the difficulty and unique beauty of ranch life in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Quirt centers on a struggling ranch of the same name and the travails and triumphs of the extended family that fights to keep it afloat.

Table of contents

• THE QUIRT
• Contents
• Chapter One - Little Fish
• Chapter Two - The Enchantment of Long Distance
• Chapter Three - Reality is Weighed and Found Wanting
• Chapter Four - "She's a Good Girl When She Ain't Crazy"
• Chapter Five - A Death "by Accident"
• Chapter Six - Lone Advises Silence
• Chapter Seven - The Man at Whisper
• Chapter Eight - "It Takes Nerve Just to Hang On"
• Chapter Nine - The Evil Eye of the Sawtooth
• Chapter Ten - Another Sawtooth "Accident"
• Chapter Eleven - Swan Talks with His Thoughts
• Chapter Twelve - The Quirt Parries the First Blow
• Chapter Thirteen - Lone Takes His Stand
• Chapter Fourteen - "Frank's Dead"
• Chapter Fifteen - Swan Trails a Coyote
• Chapter Sixteen - The Sawtooth Shows its Hand
• Chapter Seventeen - Yack Don't Lie
• Chapter Eighteen - "I Think Al Woodruff's Got Her"
• Chapter Nineteen - Swan Calls for Help
• Chapter Twenty - Kidnapped
• Chapter Twenty-One - "Oh, I Could Kill You!"
• Chapter Twenty-Two - "Yack, I Lick You Good if You Bark"
• Chapter Twenty-Three - "I Coulda Loved this Little Girl"
• Chapter Twenty-Four - Another Story Begins