Keith of the Border (Annotated)

Randall Parrish's *Keith of the Border* is a vigorous frontier romance set amid the unsettled margins of the post–Civil War American West, where military outposts, cattle trails, gambling rooms, and Indian-country danger form a landscape of moral testing. Its narrative blends mystery, pursuit, and courtship with the brisk pacing and melodramatic clarity characteristic of early twentieth-century po...