Project Gutenberg 2009-08-08 Public domain in the USA. 139 Cullum, Ridgwell 1867 1943 Burghard, Sidney Groves The Twins of Suffering Creek Reading ease score: 83.4 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "The Twins of Suffering Creek" by Ridgwell Cullum is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around Scipio, a gentle and naive man struggling to provide for his wife, Jessie, and their twin children amidst the harsh realities of life in a rough mining camp in Montana. The narrative explores themes of love, desperation, and betrayal as Scipio's devotion and naïveté create tension within his marriage, setting the stage for the unfolding drama. At the start of the book, we meet Scipio, who is trying to assist his indifferent wife, Jessie, while also dealing with the harshness of their daily lives. Jessie is consumed with discontent and longing for their former life of comfort, which contrasts with Scipio’s hopeful dreams of striking gold to improve their situation. As the story progresses, an intriguing character, a man named Lord James, enters their lives and stirs up conflict, leading to Jessie's eventual decision to leave Scipio for him, thus plunging Scipio into despair. The opening chapters set in a small mining camp depict the struggles of their family dynamic, revealing deep emotional layers that foreshadow a dramatic conflict driven by love, desire, and the quest for a better life. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Gold mines and mining -- Fiction PR Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 697465 697475 2024-10-12T16:32:56.792223 2023-09-13T07:17:12.467108 text/html text/html 736508 2021-01-05T10:41:20 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 371465 2021-01-05T10:41:20 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 458612 2024-10-12T16:33:08.730172 application/epub+zip 470427 2024-10-12T16:33:00.614236 application/epub+zip 334021 2024-10-12T16:32:59.083355 application/epub+zip 744697 2024-10-12T16:33:15.135141 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 709842 2024-10-12T16:33:07.674139 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 559071 2022-09-13T16:22:43.381796 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 641097 641013 2024-10-12T16:32:54.672263 2023-09-13T07:17:10.861092 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 640883 2021-01-05T10:41:20 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 246493 2021-01-05T10:41:20 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 640875 2021-01-05T10:41:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 246448 2021-01-05T10:41:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21207 2024-10-12T16:33:15.280117 application/rdf+xml 14448 2024-10-12T16:32:59.655193 image/jpeg 3529 2024-10-12T16:32:59.369182 image/jpeg 445491 2024-10-12T16:32:56.856211 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia