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100 1 _aPrice, Mark
245 1 2 _aA perfect gentleman
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 first December 1929 number of The Popular Magazine.
500 _aRelease date is 2025-10-28
508 _aRoger Frank and Sue Clark
520 _aA perfect gentleman by Mark Price is a Western short story written in the early 20th century. The story follows a tough cowboy-gambler who tries to live up to a young woman’s ideal of a “perfect gentleman” while facing down a crooked saloon boss in a frontier town. A wandering gun-hand rides into Oakwood, falls for shopkeeper Carol Hoyt, and hides his identity as Trigger Caswell by calling himself Joe Smith. To please her stated ideal of a mild, non-fighting gentleman, he swallows insults and holds back even as Hal Spencer, a crooked gambler, forges a debt to seize her store and threatens to force her into marriage. When Spencer goes too far, the drifter decides to act: he outplays the house at poker, shoots his way clear when they try to rob him, then thrashes Spencer in a savage fistfight and hands Carol the winnings to reclaim her store. Exposed as Trigger but spared by the intimidated law, he rides with Carol to safety, confesses the truth, and learns she values strength and bravery after all; they admit their love and head to the county seat to be married. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Street & Smith Corporation, 1929
653 _aShort stories
653 _aWestern stories
653 _aLove stories
653 _aMan-woman relationships -- Fiction
830 0 _aProduced from the first December 1929 number of The Popular Magazine.
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/popular-magazine-v-097-n-06-1929-11-07
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77137
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