[Gutenberg 16889] • The Enchanted Canyon

• Two of American author Honore Willsie Morrow’s classic westerns are bound together in this Kindle book: The Enchanted Canyon & Heart of the Desert (1913)

The Enchanted Canyon

One winter afternoon a number of years ago a boy stood leaning against the iron newel post of an old house in New York, smoking a cigarette. He was perhaps fourteen or fifteen years of age, but he might have been either older or younger. The city gives even to children a sophisticated look that baffles the casual psychologist.

But the boy was no ordinary lad.. He was as smart as lightning and as crooked as he was smart.

"Maybe he needs a woman's hand," suggested Seaton, speaking to the local police officer, "Sometimes these hard characters are clay with the right kind of a woman."

Or, perhaps, in this case, what the New York City boy needed was a trip to America’s Wild West.

Heart of the Desert (1913).

This is the story of a woman’s spiritual rebirth in the New Mexico desert, but it is also a romantic adventure tale as she is pursued by two men – one a white man of impeccable breeding and the second an Apache Indian. She spurns both, however, choosing the desert and a life living off of the land.

Honore Willsie Morrow

American novelist Honore Willsie Morrow (1880-1940) studied history at the University of Wisconsin, and is perhaps best known for her Lincoln trilogy, published 1927- 1930. Morrow also wrote westerns, however, beginning with Heart of the Desert (1913).

She was born Nora Bryant McCue in Ottumwa, Iowa. Her family moved to Madison, Wisconsin.In 1904, she married Henry Elmer Willsie, a mining engineer, and they moved to Arizona where she began writing western stories under the name "Honore Willsie" She and Willsie divorced in 1922 and she married publisher William Morrow in New York City. They adopted three children.

Her other books include

Still Jim (1915)

Lydia of the Pines"(1917)

The Forbidden Trail (1919)

The Enchanted Canyon (1921)

Judith of the Godless Valley (1922)

The Devonshires (1924)

The Exile of the Lariat (1925)

We Must March (1925)

The Father of Little Women (1927)

Splendor of God (1929)

Just a Dog's Life(1929),

Tiger Tiger (1930)

Black Daniel: The Love Story of a Great Man (1931)

Judith of the Godless Valley(1931)

"Yonder Sails the Mayflower (1934)

Demon Daughter (1939).