TY - BOOK AU - Finley,Martha TI - The Tragedy of Wild River Valley AV - PZ PY - 2014/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction KW - Revenge -- Juvenile fiction KW - Family -- Juvenile fiction KW - Siblings -- Juvenile fiction KW - Death -- Juvenile fiction KW - Farm life -- Juvenile fiction KW - Youth -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction KW - Theft -- Juvenile fiction KW - Brigands and robbers -- Juvenile fiction KW - Youth and death -- Juvenile fiction KW - Marriage -- Juvenile fiction KW - Envy -- Juvenile fiction N1 - Release date is 2014-07-28; 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/); Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46437 ER -