Fool's Goal

Fool's Goal by B.M. Bower is about the ambitious Dale Emery and how he defies all odds and dodges thievery to explore the west with his family fortune in his pockets. Excerpt: "The hoarse bellow of noon whistles shattered the cloistered quiet of the vice-president's office in a certain bank down near the stockyards. Mr. Kittridge cleared his throat and lifted his eyeglasses from his thin nose, the other hand going out to finger certain papers lying before him on the desk. "If you want to put your money into land and cattle," he said, "that is your own affair. I can doubtless arrange the matter through some of our Western correspondents."