GUNS AND COWBOYS
‘ Tall Grass,’ a new novel by E. Murray Campbell, can scarcely be called a typical Western thriller. By reason of the fact that it can lay claim to some measure of originality, it is really something better than that. _ The originality, however, is not associated with the efforts of Kent Dayton, ruined in the big American financial crash, to elevate his late father’s old ranch from decadence to prosperity but rather with the romantic side of the story. An attractive girl, also from a city, is tricked into marriage with a coarse, unscrupulous individual who has acquired her father’s old property in the cattle country adjoining the Dayton ranch. Terrified by her uncongenial associates and oui roundings, the girl runs away and takes shelter under Dayton’s roof. The story of how the young people fight their way to happiness is told with smoothrunning narrative power. Messrs Ward, Lock, and Co. are the publishers.
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Evening Star, Issue 21636, 3 February 1934, Page 22
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156GUNS AND COWBOYS Evening Star, Issue 21636, 3 February 1934, Page 22
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