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100 1 _aHaycox, Ernest,
_d1899-1950
245 1 4 _aThe land beyond the mist
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aProduced from the November 7, 1925 issue of Western Story Magazine.
500 _aRelease date is 2025-09-29
508 _aRoger Frank and Sue Clark
520 _a"The land beyond the mist by Ernest Haycox" is a Western short story written in the early 20th century. It follows a rain-battered wagon train reaching Oregon City and turns on pioneer hardship, rough frontier justice, and the high-stakes scramble to claim fertile homestead land. The story centers on Tom Cameron, traveling with Old Man Follett and his daughter Susan through relentless Oregon rains. Tensions with the bully Hank Emory flare in camp, then sharpen when Cameron buys from scout Sam Warner the location of a hidden valley worth settling. After Emory coaxes the secret from a drunken Warner and races to seize the claim, Cameron uses fog and a ruse to draw the rivals away, then occupies the valley with the Folletts. In the ensuing standoff, Cameron kills Emory, the brothers withdraw, the sun briefly breaks through, and hope returns as Cameron and Susan reconcile and the families plan a double cabin to begin their new homestead. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York, NY: Street & Smith Corporation, 1925
653 _aShort stories
653 _aWestern stories
653 _aOregon -- Fiction
830 0 _aProduced from the November 7, 1925 issue of Western Story Magazine.
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/western-story-magazine-v-056-n-02-1925-11-07
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76947
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