The Long Chance
1914
The desert is a character itself in this rip-roaring adventure from 1914. When a grizzled prospector known as the Desert Rat takes a delicate Bostonian on a journey into the Colorado wasteland, the contrast between Eastern softness and Western grit creates instant tension. They venture alongside a Cahuilla Indian guide toward a mining claim that could make them rich, but the harsh landscape and a looming sandstorm test their survival skills. When they strike fortune, the real battle begins: not against the desert, but against the greed and betrayal that wealth invites. This is frontier fiction at its most testosterone-fueled. The Long Chance captures an era when a man's word meant everything and a quick draw could decide fate. It's for readers who want their Westerns loud, their deserts merciless, and their conflicts resolved with grit rather than diplomacy.
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“Any desert land that will grow big sage will produce more fortunes thatn most gold mines -- if you can only get the water.””
— Peter B. Kyne
