Project Gutenberg 2014-07-28 Public domain in the USA. 66 Finley, Martha 1828 1909 Farquharson, Martha Cousin Martha 06041217 The Tragedy of Wild River Valley Produced by David Edwards, Fred Salzer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net from images generously made available by The Internet Archive (http://archive.org/). "The Tragedy of Wild River Valley" by Martha Finley is a novel written in the late 19th century. The narrative appears to focus on themes of morality, crime, and family ties against the backdrop of the post-Civil War American Midwest. The story introduces several engaging characters, among them Phelim O'Rourke, whose sinister motives and moral conflict set the stage for unfolding drama involving his family and the surrounding community. At the start of the book, we meet Phelim O'Rourke, a recently returned soldier from the Civil War, who arrives at his family's humble cabin to a warm welcome from his mother and father. However, excitement soon turns to turmoil when Phelim learns that the woman he loves is now married to another man, igniting feelings of rage and revenge in him. As he grapples with his disappointment, he joins a group of miscreants led by Teddy McManus, planning a burglary to secure wealth and, perhaps, his future. Meanwhile, the Heath family, struggling with their own hardships and the threat from rising criminal activity in the region, forms a secondary thread in the narrative, hinting at interconnected fates in Wild River Valley. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/46437/46437-h/images/cover.jpg en Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction Revenge -- Juvenile fiction Family -- Juvenile fiction Siblings -- Juvenile fiction Death -- Juvenile fiction Farm life -- Juvenile fiction Youth -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction Theft -- Juvenile fiction Brigands and robbers -- Juvenile fiction Youth and death -- Juvenile fiction Marriage -- Juvenile fiction Envy -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Fiction 365705 365714 2024-09-19T11:33:56.401318 2023-09-20T07:42:51.058314 text/html text/html 368790 2014-07-28T11:37:46 text/html; charset=utf-8 220950 2014-07-28T11:37:48 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 259309 2024-09-19T11:34:01.719344 application/epub+zip 256813 2024-09-19T11:33:57.210320 application/epub+zip 231192 2024-09-19T11:33:56.789368 application/epub+zip 346073 2024-09-19T11:34:05.488298 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 315775 2024-09-19T11:34:01.287328 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 290844 2022-09-21T06:29:40.291314 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 309629 2024-09-19T11:33:55.494370 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 318571 2014-07-28T11:37:44 text/plain; charset=utf-8 121510 2014-07-28T11:37:48 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 309455 2014-07-28T11:37:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 120324 2014-07-28T11:37:48 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22920 2024-09-19T11:34:05.626367 application/rdf+xml 15775 2024-09-19T11:33:56.880314 image/jpeg 2314 2024-09-19T11:33:56.834319 image/jpeg 232948 2024-09-19T11:33:56.435329 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 19th Century Girls' Series