Project Gutenberg 2010-01-16 Public domain in the USA. 81 Chapman, Arthur 1873 1935 Mystery Ranch Produced by David Edwards, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Mystery Ranch" by Arthur Chapman is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story unfolds within an Indian reservation context, centering on Walter Lowell, an Indian agent, amidst a murder mystery that poses threats to both Indians and white settlers. The narrative sets up an intriguing conflict between cultures and the expectations that come with them, entwined with the lives of characters like Plenty Buffalo, the Indian police chief, and the enigmatic Fire Bear, who leads a rebellious faction among the young Indians. The opening of the narrative introduces the urgent situation of a murder discovered on the edge of the reservation, caught in a web of racial suspicion and prejudice. As Walter Lowell receives the distressing news from Plenty Buffalo about the murder victim, he faces the impending turmoil that can erupt from the incident—especially with the added complexity of local fears regarding the Native American population. Various characters are presented, including the white sheriff advocating for justice and the trader Talpers, who has his own dubious motives. This inciting moment sets forth a cascade of events that bring tensions between the cultures to the forefront, raising questions about justice, identity, and the harsh realities of life on the frontier. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Detective and mystery stories West (U.S.) -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 330767 330790 2024-09-13T07:54:26.009018 2023-09-13T12:34:30.861937 text/html text/html 330444 2010-01-16T10:23:26 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 121797 2010-01-16T10:23:26 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 168781 2024-09-13T07:54:31.524995 application/epub+zip 173107 2024-09-13T07:54:27.447973 application/epub+zip 173107 2024-09-13T07:54:26.592037 application/epub+zip 301217 2024-09-13T07:54:34.855923 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 282902 2024-09-13T07:54:30.941950 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 283214 2022-09-14T09:29:39.126668 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 316035 315832 2024-09-13T07:54:25.417975 2023-09-13T12:34:30.198909 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 315935 2010-01-16T10:23:24 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 119319 2010-01-16T10:23:26 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 315926 2010-01-16T10:23:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 119293 2010-01-16T10:23:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20449 2024-09-13T07:54:34.982936 application/rdf+xml 10781 2024-09-13T07:54:26.928988 image/jpeg 3058 2024-09-13T07:54:26.757987 image/jpeg 167134 2024-09-13T07:54:26.039005 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