Hidden Water (Western Novel)

This eBook edition of "e;Hidden Water (Western Novel)"e; has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Excerpt:"e;After many long, brooding days of sunshine, when the clean-cut mountains gleamed brilliantly against the sky and the grama grass curled slowly on its stem, the rain wind rose up suddenly out of Papaguera and swooped down upon the desolate town of Bender, whirling a cloud of dust before it; and the inhabitants, man and horse, took to cover.

New-born clouds, rushing out of the ruck of flying dirt, cast a cold, damp shadow upon the earth and hurried past; white-crested thunder-caps, piling-up above the Four Peaks, swept resolutely down to meet them; and the storm wind, laden with the smell of greasewood and wetted alkali, lashed the gaunt desert bushes mercilessly as it howled across the plain...."e;Dane Coolidge (1873-1940) was a prolific author of western novels and Indian tales.