Project Gutenberg 2003-05-01 Public domain in the USA. 144 Beach, Rex 1877 1949 Beach, Rex Ellingwood The Barrier Produced by Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. HTML version by Al Haines. "The Barrier" by Rex Beach is a novel likely written in the early 20th century. The story is set in a rugged frontier community and revolves around the trader Old Man Gale and his daughter, Necia, highlighting the complexities of life in this remote location where law and order hang in the balance. Central to the narrative are Gale’s worries about encroaching civilization and the unexpected arrival of military presence, as well as Necia's interactions with various characters, including the French-Canadian Poleon Doret and the newly arrived Lieutenant Burrell. The opening of the novel introduces the setting of Flambeau, a trading post in the North, and establishes the character dynamics primarily between Old Man Gale, who is protective of his daughter, and Necia, who craves adventure and connection with the outside world. Gale's reflections on the isolation of their community and the looming change brought by the presence of soldiers create a tension that underlies the narrative. Through Necia's lighthearted conversations and her relationship with Poleon, the reader gets a glimpse of a young woman's yearning for a broader life amidst the threats and complexities of frontier existence. The arrival of new characters signals potential conflicts and a shift in the established order, setting the stage for the unfolding drama. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Western stories Adventure stories Yukon -- Fiction PS Text Western Movie Books Bestsellers, American, 1895-1923 Browsing: Literature Browsing: Travel & Geography Browsing: Fiction 548589 544701 2024-10-02T11:08:27.796357 2023-10-02T09:40:37.690545 text/html text/html 541089 2020-12-27T17:43:37 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 204850 2020-12-27T17:43:37 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 268237 2024-10-02T11:08:36.138264 application/epub+zip 277283 2024-10-02T11:08:29.800347 application/epub+zip 277285 2024-10-02T11:08:28.559328 application/epub+zip 455585 2024-10-02T11:08:40.966260 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 441056 2024-10-02T11:08:35.356273 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 413516 2022-09-02T13:01:47.067850 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 507839 507748 2024-10-02T11:08:26.224372 2023-10-02T09:40:36.385511 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 507746 2020-12-27T17:43:37 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 200466 2020-12-27T17:43:37 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 507737 2020-12-27T17:43:37 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 200407 2020-12-27T17:43:37 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22786 2024-10-02T11:08:41.101236 application/rdf+xml 9680 2024-10-02T11:08:29.115631 image/jpeg 2776 2024-10-02T11:08:28.837325 image/jpeg 260244 2024-10-02T11:08:27.846328 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