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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aArbuckle, Mary B.,
_d1886-
245 1 4 _aThe man from Oregon
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
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490 1 _aProduced from the March 1930 issue of McCall's Magazine.
500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-10
508 _aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net)
520 _aThe man from Oregon by Mary B. Arbuckle is a literary short story written in the early 20th century. Set on the stark plains and canyon country of the American Southwest, it reflects on the hardships of frontier life and the persistence of long-promised love as a returning cowhand seeks the woman he vowed to marry. A weary schoolteacher, Kendall, boards with the Brownlie family on a bleak Texas Panhandle ranch and witnesses their joyless grind: a widowed mother, her overworked sons, and little Lily, whom the mother fiercely shields from toil. In town, Kendall meets Andrew Rogers from Oregon, who recounts—thinly veiling it as a “friend’s” tale—how he once loved a married woman while working for the Bar V outfit and left only after they pledged to wed if she were ever free. Realizing the woman is Mrs. Brownlie, Kendall returns with Rogers to the ranch. Recognition flares silently between the two; the mother tries to deflect it, then breaks. Rogers vows to take her and the children to the home he has made, and Kendall, moved by their reunion against the vast, indifferent plains, sees in it the stubborn strength of the human heart. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: The McCall Company, 1930
653 _aShort stories
653 _aWestern stories
653 _aMan-woman relationships -- Fiction
653 _aRanch life -- Fiction
700 1 _aHoffman, Frank B.,
_d1888-1958
700 1 _aMcMein, Neysa,
_d1889-1949
830 0 _aProduced from the March 1930 issue of McCall's Magazine.
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/mc-calls-v-057-n-06-1930-03
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78410
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