Of the many problems that had beset Mary Stockwell during her two years of teaching school in the sparsely settled Tonto Basin of Arizona, this last one was the knottiest, the one that touched her most keenly. For it involved her little sister, Georgiana May, who was on her way to Arizona to be cured, the letter from their mother disclosed, of a slight tendency toward tuberculosis, and a very great leaning toward indiscriminate flirtation.This day Mary was unusually tired. She had walked all the way up to the little log ...
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Of the many problems that had beset Mary Stockwell during her two years of teaching school in the sparsely settled Tonto Basin of Arizona, this last one was the knottiest, the one that touched her most keenly. For it involved her little sister, Georgiana May, who was on her way to Arizona to be cured, the letter from their mother disclosed, of a slight tendency toward tuberculosis, and a very great leaning toward indiscriminate flirtation.This day Mary was unusually tired. She had walked all the way up to the little log school-house on Tonto Creek-six miles-and back again to the Thurman ranch at Green Valley, where she boarded. Her eighteen pupils, ranging from six-year-old Mytie Thurman to sixteen-year-old Richard, had broken all records that day for insubordination. Then the hot sun of the September afternoon and the thick dust of the long dry road through brush and forest had taxed her to extreme weariness. Consequently she was not at her best to receive such a shock as her mother's letter had given her.
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Fair. No dust jacket. 309 p. Original owner's name inside cover. Book shows age-probably had the dj scotch-taped to inside covers but dj is nowhere to be found. Great filler book for your Zane Grey collection.
When the area that is left of the 100th meridian on the map is looked at, the first response is, "THE WEST". Along with that goes, "the code of the West". School teacher Mary Stockwell is joined out west in the Tonto Basin of Arizona by her sister, Georgianna, sent there by her parents because of her outrageous behavior which has caused a "bad" lung. And her doctor, Dr. Jones, agreed: "Georgie had danced and gadded herself into a rundown condition." Code of the West is another Zane Grey novel which speaks to the riotous and unrestrained times in the country. To say Zane Grey was a moralist might be going too far since certain things concerning his life have been revealed in recent years; but he did not smoke nor drink, and he saw such behavior as was exhibited by the younger generation, especially as bad, and as injurious to the country, so he wrote against these social problems whenever he could. Laying all that aside, Code of the West, is an entertaining story with characters you will long remember,especially Tuck Merry,and with fond thoughts as you go back in time to the early years of the 20th century. For most today this is nostalgic, and romantic to think about, yet when this was published it was contemporary. It is indeed surprising when one examines the body of Zane Grey's work just how many of his novels were set in the time and day in which he wrote them, and not in the "Old West" of the 19th century. This is a most delightful book, I would advise anyone to read.
