'Me--Smith'
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A good fit for
- Readers who want to read original American Western fiction for free
- Enthusiasts studying early twentieth-century American popular fiction
- Learners who wish to practice reading with light original English texts
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting deep social critique or discussion of modern issues
- Those unaccustomed to early twentieth-century English and Western slang
Reading tips
- Read the first two chapters to sort out the characters and the identity mix-up, then continue through the book
- Guess Western slang from context rather than checking every word
- After reading, compare with the author's other Western novels and note the continuity of her humor
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Caroline Lockhart (1870–1962) was an English-language novelist about whose life relatively little is recorded; public information is limited, and her nationality, education, and writing career cannot be reliably established. Judging from the five works held in the collection, she wrote mainly popular fiction set in the American West. Her representative works include The Fighting Shepherdess, The Lady Doc, The Dude Wrangler, The Man from the Bitter Roots, and ‘Me--Smith’. These titles suggest ranches, shepherds, doctors, outsiders, and mountain wilderness, indicating that her subjects center on frontier life and the conflicts and emotional entanglements of rural communities. Her style tends toward popular storytelling, with an emphasis on plot and characterization, and plain, readable language suited to a general audience. Despite the lack of a confirmed biography or chronology, these works remain useful examples for the study of early twentieth-century American popular Western fiction.
