East meets West in this classic novel from acclaimed writer Emerson Hough. After spending her entire life on a cattle ranch in the wide-open West, a young woman named Bonnie Bell Wright moves to a genteel community in the Northeast U.S. to find a suitable husband, along with her cantankerous father and a salt-of-the-earth farm hand named Curly, the narrator of the tale.

Emerson Hough (June 28, 1857 - April 30, 1923) was an American author best known for writing western stories and historical novels. Hough was born in Newton, Iowa on June 28, 1857. He was in Newton High School's first graduating class of three in 1875. He graduated from the University of Iowa with a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1880 and later studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1882. His first article, "Far From The Madding Crowd," was published in Forest and Stream in 1882.