The Wind and the Snow of Winter (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Walter Van Tilburg Clark
- First Published: 1944
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The early twentieth century
- Setting: The desert mountains of Central Nevada
- Principal Characters: Mike Braneen, An unidentified younger man
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Memory, Loneliness, Life and death, Old age or elderly people, Gold mines or mining
- Locales: Nevada
The Story
Mike Braneen has been looking for gold in the rugged desert mountains of Central Nevada for fifty-two years, roughly the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century. He apparently has found enough gold to support his meager lifestyle, but he has long since ceased expecting to strike it rich.
Mike's life has become routine to the point of ritual; he spends eight months of every year—from April to December—in the mountains, and when the first snow falls he takes refuge in the little mining town of Gold Rock. For eight...
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