Beth Norvell (Annotated)

Beth Norvell is a vigorous romance of the American West, set amid the raw social energies of a mining frontier where ambition, violence, class aspiration, and personal honor collide. Parrish combines melodramatic incident with the brisk pacing of popular adventure fiction, while giving his heroine an unusual prominence for the period: Beth is not merely an object of rescue, but a figure through wh...