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The Outlaw's Wife

1883 · Free to read

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About this issue

This issue contains the opening of "The Outlaw's Wife; or, The Valley Ranche," a California frontier tale by Ann S. Stephens. The narrative introduces a secluded valley settlement near gold diggings in the Sierra foothills, where a mysterious, pale-haired woman watches from a ranche. Observing an approaching cavalcade of miners and guides escorting an injured man, she recognizes him with shock as "Laurence." Desperate to avoid being seen, she fears what his presence might mean, particularly if her husband Philip returns. The woman, delicate and refined despite her frontier setting, descends to meet the visitors as her Indian servants are absent. Stephels' prose emphasizes gothic elements—the woman's anguish, the isolated mountain landscape, and the intrusion of the past into her present seclusion.

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