The Border Legion

by Zane Grey

First published 1916

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Joan Randle is swept into the violent world of an outlaw band operating around the mining camps of Idaho and Montana. Among the gang is Kells, a dangerous leader whose treatment of Joan reveals tensions between brutality, possession and a capacity for change that even he does not fully understand.

The boomtown setting of the early 1860s provides fertile ground for the gang: gold has drawn thousands of newcomers into places where wealth can be sudden and law enforcement uncertain. Joan’s struggle for safety becomes intertwined with the possibility of redemption among men whose lives have been built around robbery and violence.