Susy A Story Of The Plains
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781419150067
Subjects: Westerns; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Fiction; Fiction - Western; Literature: Classics; Westerns - General; Classics
First sentence: Where the San Leandro turnpike stretches its dusty, hot, and interminable length along the valley, at a point where the heat and dust have become intolerable, the monotonous expanse of wild oats on either side illimitable, and the distant horizon apparently remoter than ever, it suddenly slips between a stunted thicket or hedge of "scrub oaks," which until that moment had been undistinguishable above the long, misty, quivering level of the grain.