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100 1 _aMowery, William Byron,
_d1899-1957
245 1 0 _aWolf Pass
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from the September, 1930 issue of Redbook magazine.
500 _aRelease date is 2026-02-11
508 _aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net)
520 _aWolf Pass by William Byron Mowery is a frontier adventure short story written in the early 20th century. Set in the northern Rockies, it follows a wilderness chase and moral showdown between a Royal Canadian Mounted Police inspector and a desperate fugitive, seen through the ordeal of the inspector’s young wife; its likely topic is how justice, mercy, and marital trust are tested under extreme pressure. Sylvia, defying her husband Inspector Lorn Hastings’s warning, takes a solo canoe trip and is ambushed by the hunted outlaw Slith Behrdal, who seizes her rifle, canoe, and provisions. Half-starved and cunning, he plays on her sympathy while driving upriver toward Wolf Pass, where Hastings lies in wait. As dusk falls, Behrdal uses Sylvia as cover and opens fire; Hastings’s canoe is wrecked, and he reaches a midstream rock with only his sidearm. When Behrdal closes in to finish him, Sylvia deliberately capsizes their canoe, throwing the outlaw into the icy current. Hastings swims out, subdues and saves the drowning man, and takes him prisoner. In the quiet paddle back to Bighorn, Sylvia’s remorse meets Hastings’s stern compassion, and the couple reconcile, their bond renewed by shared danger and hard-won clarity. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cChicago: The McCall Company, 1930
653 _aShort stories
653 _aCanada -- Fiction
653 _aCriminals -- Fiction
653 _aRoyal Canadian Mounted Police -- Fiction
653 _aSpouses -- Fiction
700 1 _aSchoonover, Frank E.,
_d1877-1972
830 0 _aProduced from the September, 1930 issue of Redbook magazine.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77911
999 _c118631
_d118631