The Winning of Barbara Worth

by Harold Bell Wright · first published 1911

The Winning of Barbara Worth is a 1911 Western romance novel by the American writer Harold Bell Wright. A major best-seller upon its release, the novel is an epic of desert reclamation set in the fictional Rubio City and King's Basin (based on the Imperial Valley) in southeastern California. It dramatizes the historical efforts to irrigate the Colorado Desert and the catastrophic formation of the Salton Sea, exploring themes of capitalism, nature, and the development of the American West.

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Original language:

English

Year page:

1911