Field Book of Western Wild Flowers is a manual by J. J. Thornber. A large number of the commoner wild flowers growing in the United States, west of the Rocky Mountains, are pictured and described.
The scene of this story is a fascinating one: the Connecticut workshop of the country's foremost stained-glass window artist. This eccentric man, Frederick Ullathorne, has fled New York to escape reporters, friends, scandal and interruptions of all kinds while he finishes his life work, a magnificent rose window for St. John's Cathedral. This is harshly interrupted early one morning when bones are found in the furnace of the workshop cellar…