Project Gutenberg 2025-01-12 Public domain in the USA. 128 Leinster, Murray 1896 1975 Jenkins, Will Jenkins, William Fitzgerald Fitzgerald, William Jenkins, Will F. Boots : $b a story of the sierra of Peru $aNew York :$bThe Butterick Publishing Company, $c1929. Produced from the August 15, 1929 issue of Adventure magazine. Reading ease score: 84.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. Roger Frank and Sue Clark "Boots: A Story of the Sierra of Peru" by Murray Leinster is a short story that falls within the adventure genre, written in the late 1920s. Set in the lush jungles and rugged mountains of Peru, the narrative explores themes of ambition, desperation, and the complex interactions between different cultures, particularly between Native Americans and white adventurers. The central plot revolves around the motivations and actions of the protagonist, Juan, as he navigates the arrival of three white men who embody both madness and opportunity. The story begins with Juan, a mostly Araucanian Indian, who maintains a simple life in the jungle until he encounters three destitute and seemingly insane white men on a quest for emeralds. As the men eat his meager food and tell wild stories about their fortunes, Juan's initial fear turns to scorn as he observes their hunger and gluttony. Fueled by his own feelings of inferiority and a desire to impress a beautiful woman back home, Juan's envy of the dark man's boots sparks a transformation within him. Tension escalates when he realizes that one of the men plans to betray the others for the emeralds. In a moment of fear and desperation, Juan acts decisively, killing the would-be murderer with a swift arrow. In the end, Juan takes the boots as a symbol of power and status, leaving the emeralds behind, highlighting the story's moral complexities and the thin line between sanity and madness. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/adventure-v-071-n-05-1929-08-15 20250102001212leinster 1929 US en Short stories Indians of South America -- Peru -- Fiction Americans -- Peru -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Fiction 55898 2025-02-28T20:43:19.406764 text/html 31798 2025-01-16T01:55:06 text/html 384511 2025-02-28T20:43:22.309789 application/epub+zip 383318 2025-02-28T20:43:20.474742 application/epub+zip 143103 2025-02-28T20:43:19.805767 application/epub+zip 899561 2025-02-28T20:43:23.698727 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 891988 2025-02-28T20:43:21.794772 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 48595 2025-02-28T20:43:19.269768 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 28300 2025-01-16T01:55:06 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16662 2025-02-28T20:43:23.829774 application/rdf+xml 23720 2025-02-28T20:43:20.044742 image/jpeg 4117 2025-02-28T20:43:19.926748 image/jpeg 534482 2025-02-28T20:43:19.421782 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