Project Gutenberg 2014-07-28 Public domain in the USA. 155 Finley, Martha 1828 1909 Farquharson, Martha Cousin Martha 06041217 The Tragedy of Wild River Valley Produced by David Edwards, Fred Salzer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net from images generously made available by The Internet Archive (http://archive.org/). "The Tragedy of Wild River Valley" by Martha Finley is a novel written in the late 19th century. The narrative appears to focus on themes of morality, crime, and family ties against the backdrop of the post-Civil War American Midwest. The story introduces several engaging characters, among them Phelim O'Rourke, whose sinister motives and moral conflict set the stage for unfolding drama involving his family and the surrounding community. At the start of the book, we meet Phelim O'Rourke, a recently returned soldier from the Civil War, who arrives at his family's humble cabin to a warm welcome from his mother and father. However, excitement soon turns to turmoil when Phelim learns that the woman he loves is now married to another man, igniting feelings of rage and revenge in him. As he grapples with his disappointment, he joins a group of miscreants led by Teddy McManus, planning a burglary to secure wealth and, perhaps, his future. Meanwhile, the Heath family, struggling with their own hardships and the threat from rising criminal activity in the region, forms a secondary thread in the narrative, hinting at interconnected fates in Wild River Valley. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/46437/46437-h/images/cover.jpg Reading ease score: 76.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction Revenge -- Juvenile fiction Family -- Juvenile fiction Siblings -- Juvenile fiction Death -- Juvenile fiction Farm life -- Juvenile fiction Youth -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction Theft -- Juvenile fiction Brigands and robbers -- Juvenile fiction Youth and death -- Juvenile fiction Marriage -- Juvenile fiction Envy -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Category: Novels Category: American Literature 365896 2025-07-18T15:49:40.472033 text/html 348708 2024-10-24T09:27:45 text/html 259609 2025-07-18T15:49:45.187012 application/epub+zip 256850 2025-07-18T15:49:41.230055 application/epub+zip 231229 2025-07-18T15:49:40.843059 application/epub+zip 346121 2025-07-18T15:49:48.419047 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 315795 2025-07-18T15:49:44.787006 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 290844 2022-09-21T06:29:40.291314 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 318575 2025-07-18T15:49:39.883051 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 298609 2024-10-24T09:27:45 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 20196 2025-07-18T15:49:48.550010 application/rdf+xml 15775 2025-07-18T15:49:40.930033 image/jpeg 2314 2025-07-18T15:49:40.886071 image/jpeg 233001 2025-07-18T15:49:40.502073 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia