Ranson's Folly is a fictional romance and adventure novel by the war correspondent and novelist Richard Harding Davies. It revolves around the settlers at Fort Crockett. One of whom is Mr. Cahill, the post's trader, a dark, sinister man, alive only to money-making and who was known to handle a revolver with the alertness of a town-marshal. His daughter Mary joins him at the Fort. Since the day she left the convent Mary Cahill had held but two affections: one for her dear father, who brooded over her as jealously as a lover, and the other for the entire United States Army. But when Lieutenant Ranson arrives from the Philippines, the affections of Mary Cahill are less generously distributed, and her heart turns toward the new arrival. Ranson is however falsely accused of a crime and is at risk of a court martial…
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