How Long to Read Lonesome Land - Publishing People Series

How Long Does it Take to Read Lonesome Land - Publishing People Series?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 38 minutes to read Lonesome Land - Publishing People Series by B M Bower

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In northern Montana there lies a great, lonely stretch of prairie land, gashed deep where flows the Missouri. Indeed, there are many such-big, impassive, impressive in their very loneliness, in summer given over to the winds and the meadow larks and to the shadows fleeing always over the hilltops. Wild range cattle feed there and grow sleek and fat for the fall shipping of beef. At night the coyotes yap quaveringly and prowl abroad after the long-eared jack rabbits, which bounce away at their hunger-driven approach. In winter it is not good to be there; even the beasts shrink then from the bleak, level reaches, and shun the still bleaker heights.But men will live anywhere if by so doing there is money to be gained, and so a town snuggled up against the northern rim of the bench land, where the bleakness was softened a bit by the sheltering hills, and a willow-fringed creek with wild rosebushes and chokecherries made a vivid green background for the meager huddle of little, unpainted buildings.To the passengers on the through trains which watered at the red tank near the creek, the place looked crudely picturesque-interesting, so long as one was not compelled to live there and could retain a perfectly impersonal viewpoint. After five or ten minutes spent hi watching curiously the one little street, with the long hitching poles planted firmly and frequently down both sides-usually within a very few steps of a saloon door-and the horses nodding and stamping at the flies, and the loitering figures that appeared now and then in desultory fashion, many of them imagined that they understood the West and sympathized with it, and appreciated its bigness and its freedom from conventions.One slim young woman had just told the thin-faced school teacher on a vacation, with whom she had formed one of those evanescent traveling acquaintances, that she already knew the West, from instinct and from Manley's letters. She loved it, she said, because Manley loved it, and because it was to be her home, and because it was so big and so free. Out here one could think and grow and really live, she declared, with enthusiasm. Manley had lived here for three years, and his letters, she told the thin-faced teacher, were an education in themselves.The teacher had already learned that the slim young woman, with the yellow-brown hair and yellow-brown eyes to match, was going to marry Manley-she had forgotten his other name, though the young woman had mentioned it-and would live on a ranch, a cattle ranch. She smiled with somewhat wistful sympathy, and hoped the young woman would be happy; and the young woman waved her hand, with the glove only half pulled on, toward the shadow-dappled prairie and the willow-fringed creek, and the hills beyond."Happy!" she echoed joyously. "Could one be anything else, in such a country? And then-you don't know Manley, you see. It's horribly bad form, and undignified and all that, to prate of one's private affairs, but I just can't help bubbling over. I'm not looking for heaven, and I expect to have plenty of bumpy places in the trail-trail is anything that you travel over, out here; Manley has coached me faithfully-but I'm going to be happy. My mind is quite made up. Well, good-by-I'm so glad you happened to be on this train, and I wish I might meet you again. Isn't it a funny little depot? Oh, yes-thank you! I almost forgot that umbrella, and I might need it. Yes, I'll write to you-I should hate to drop out of your mind completely. Address me Mrs. Manley Fleetwood, Hope, Montana. Good-by-I wish-"

How long is Lonesome Land - Publishing People Series?

Lonesome Land - Publishing People Series by B M Bower is 506 pages long, and a total of 129,536 words.

This makes it 171% the length of the average book. It also has 158% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Lonesome Land - Publishing People Series Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 47 minutes to read Lonesome Land - Publishing People Series aloud.

What Reading Level is Lonesome Land - Publishing People Series?

Lonesome Land - Publishing People Series is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

Where Can I Buy Lonesome Land - Publishing People Series?

Lonesome Land - Publishing People Series by B M Bower is sold by several retailers and bookshops. However, Read Time works with Amazon to provide an easier way to purchase books.

To buy Lonesome Land - Publishing People Series by B M Bower on Amazon click the button below.