The Big-Town Round-Up

In the Arizona desert, a city girl and her father arrive at a cattle round-up expecting romance and find instead the brutal truth of ranch life. Branding, stampeding steers, and the raw force of the range shatter her fantasies—until a fearless young cowpuncher, Clay Lindsay, saves her in a flash of expert horsemanship and then refuses any reward with blunt Western pride. What begins as a rescue becomes an uneasy spark between East and West, manners and independence, innocence and hard experience. Later, Clay heads east toward New York, where his range-honed instincts are tested again aboard a train by Kitty Mason, a naïve aspiring actress being drawn into the orbit of Jerry Durand, a smooth but dangerous gang leader and former fighter. Clay intervenes before Kitty is led into real trouble, but his act of decency creates new complications back in his apartment, where Johnnie Green tries to shelter the girl and Beatrice Whitford reacts with cool disapproval, jealousy, and hurt pride. As tensions rise, Clay defends his choices with a vivid tale of frontier survival, exposing the novel's larger clash of class prejudice, gender expectations, and the Western code of honor. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.