In a Far Country's seventeen tales and essays not only trace the vastness of the West, but they also form, with the introduction and notes supplied by the editor, a biography of on of America's supreme literary artists. The stories cover London's entire writing life—from 1899 and the title story, to the posthumously published gem, Like Argus of the Ancient Times.Of special interest is London's re-creation—uncannily accurate—of one of the bloodiest and most shameful episodes of Utah territorial history, the massacre at Mountain Meadows in 1857.
