Katharine Newlin Burt

Katharine Newlin Burt
Katharine Newlin Burt was an American writer known for her Western fiction, romantic novels, and short stories. Born in 1882, she gained popularity during the early 20th century for works like "The Branding Iron" (1919), which was later adapted into a film. She was also the wife of fellow author Maxwell Struthers Burt, and together they established a literary presence in both fiction and ranch life. Katharine's vivid depictions of the American West and complex character portrayals left a lasting impact on Western literature of her era.

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CHAPTER I SHEILA'S LEGACY Just before his death, Marcus Arundel, artist and father of Sheila, bore witness to his faith in God and man. He had been lying apparently unconscious, his slow, difficult breath drawn at longer and longer intervals. Sheila was huddled on the floor beside his bed, her hand pressing his urgently in the pitiful attempt, common to human love, to hold back the resolute soul... more...

CHAPTER I Under a noon sun the vast, flat country, buried deep in snow, lay like a paper hoop rimmed by the dark primeval forest; its surface shone with an unbearable brightness as of sun-struck glass, every crystal gleaming and quivering with intense cold light. To the north a single blunt, low mountain-head broke the evenness of the horizon line. Hugh Garth seemed to leap through paper like a tiny... more...

JOAN READS BY FIRELIGHT There is no silence so fearful, so breathless, so searching as the night silence of a wild country buried five feet deep in snow. For thirty miles or so, north, south, east, and west of the small, half-smothered speck of gold in Pierre Landis’s cabin window, there lay, on a certain December night, this silence, bathed in moonlight. The cold was intense: below the bench where... more...