[Gutenberg 25835] • The Branding Iron

THE BRANDING IRON AND OTHER WESTERNS includes three western romance novels by Katharine Newlin Burt. Burt (1882-1977) was a noted western writer and married to fellow writer to Maxwell Struthers Burt. Together the couple homesteaded the Bar BC Ranch near Moose, Wyoming, whose environs served as a backdrop for many of her works. Their son was the writer Nathaniel Burt.

• The Branding Iron

• Hidden Creek

• Snow-Blind

THE BRANDING IRON follows the life of Joan, a young western girl who marries Pierre, a troubled loner of a rancher. Joan soon becomes attracted to Holliwell, who rouses Pierre's jealousy. Instead of shooting his rival, Pierre brands his wife between the shoulders with his branding iron. On the second, enter male number three, Prosper Gael, author and elegant man of the world who shoots Pierre, leaving him for dead, and carries off Joan -- and that's just the beginning!