TY - BOOK AU - Norris,Frank TI - A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West AV - PS PY - 2006/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Western stories N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deal_in_Wheat_and_Other_Stories_of_the_New_and_Old_West; Illustrated by Remington, Leyendecker, Hitchcock and Hooper; Release date is 2006-02-01; A Deal in Wheat -- The Wife of Chino -- A Bargain with Peg-Leg -- The Passing of Cock-Eye Blacklock -- A Memorandum of Sudden Death -- Two Hearts That Beat as One -- The Dual Personality of Slick Dick Nickerson -- The Ship That Saw a Ghost -- The Ghost in the Crosstrees -- The Riding of Felipe; Produced by Eric Eldred, Elaine Nash and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West" by Frank Norris is a collection of short stories published posthumously in 1903. These tales span the American West, from wheat speculation at the Chicago Board of Trade to isolated mining camps in California. The title story follows a Kansas wheat farmer destroyed by economic forces beyond his control, tracing his journey from rural ruin to urban poverty. Through naturalistic storytelling, Norris exposes the brutal truths underlying everyday life and the stark divisions between social classes. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9905 ER -