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" The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky " is an 1898 western short story by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). Originally published in the February, 1898 issue of McClure's Magazine, it was written in England. The story's protagonist is a Texas marshal named Jack Potter, who is returning to the town of Yellow Sky with his eastern bride.
Jack Potter, Marshal of Yellow Sky, a dusty outpost on the sands of west Texas comes home on a train with his new bride. In the meantime, the town ne'er do well is drunk and shooting up the town. Potter and his nemesis Scratchy Wilson are both of an era when all was settled with the draw of a gun.
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky. A marshal (Robert Preston) and his new bride (Marjorie Steele) share a nervous train ride home while a revenge-seeking troublemaker awaits the lawman's...
- Drama, Western
any part of the matter with Yellow Sky. He was now bringing his bride to a suretobesurprised town. Of course, people in Yellow Sky married as it pleased them. But Potter’s thoughts of his duty to his friends, or of their idea of his duty, made him feel he was sinful. He was guilty of a great and unusual crime.
“ The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky ” was published in 1898. That date should give readers an indication of the significance of the western genre in American literature. In fact, it should go far to suggesting that the western is the genre which defines American literature.
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Synopsis. The train brings Marshal Jack Potter and his new bride to the dusty outpost of Yellow Sky on the parched sands of west Texas. Meanwhile, Scratchy Wilson, the local n'ere-do-well lies in wait after frightening the townspeople with his blazing six-gun. In the final showdown, how will anyone walk away?
