Seven Million Dollars

"Seven Million Dollars" is a Western novel by the American Nobel Literature Prize winner Sinclair Lewis. Cordwood Mcgash had worked in many trades in his youth. His latest business venture however brings unexpected results when his purchase of some land yields rich deposits of iron, for which he was rewarded handsomely by the steel companies. So it happened that at the age of fifty-five, a bachelor because he had always loved all the ladies too generously to pick on any one of them, this little man with the hard hands of a workman, this cheerful dancer in saloons, this busy speculator to whom business was not money but a game, found himself with $7,000,000 to his credit, no job any longer, and no notion whatever as to how he could use all that incalculable pile…