Winning of Barbara Worth

In the sun-scoured wastelands of the American Southwest, a foundling girl is raised by a dreamer with the power to turn desert into paradise. Barbara Worth, unnamed infant of a dying mother, becomes the adopted daughter of Jefferson Worth, a capitalist unlike any other. He sees gold not in the earth but in the possibility of water, and his vision to divert the Colorado River into the Jaquinn Valley could create an empire of green where there was only sand. But visionaries attract vultures. As Jefferson fights to reclaim the desert, he faces enemies as relentless as the drought: rival capitalists who see settlers not as people but as profit, and a system designed to crush men who dream too big. At the center stands Barbara, a girl of the desert who must choose between the men who would shape her fate, and claim her heart. Wright's 1911 masterpiece crackles with the romance of creation and the violence of greed, asking what it truly costs to make an oasis where none should exist.