Life's Lure

by John G. Neihardt

Book Overview

Coming four years after The Dawn Builder (1910), John G. Neihardt's second novel portrays the lives of Black Hills miners and of those who preyed on them. Life's Lure takes up a theme that runs throughout Neihardt's work: the consequences of an inordinate desire for wealth.

The protagonists come in sets of three. On one hand there are Samuel Drake, a hapless thirty-year-old who has just squandered his inheritance in a Deadwood card...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803233337
• ISBN13: 9780803233331
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.3"