Legends of the Fall Chapter Summary & Analysis - Chapter 3 and Epilogue Summary

Legends of the Fall, Chapter 3 and Epilogue Summary

Just after the stock market crash, Tristan, Isabel Two, Decker, and two ranch hands make a trip to deliver cattle. At a celebratory dinner, they all watch another party who is rich from smuggling liquor. Tristan busy whiskey to take home and sell to neighbors. On the way home, the procession of car and horses must stop for a roadblock. The officers shoot their rifles into the air aimlessly, and one bullet ricochets and kills Isabel Two. Tristan beats the officers nearly to death. He picks up Isabel Two and carries her for miles.

Officers come to arrest Tristan for the beatings. Pet, Isabel Two's mother, interrupts to tell Tristan that Isabel Three is missing and Tristan goes to find her, singing the death song with One Stab. Tristan spends thirty days in jail, refusing to see Alfred. Tristan also will not talk to anyone but his children, including responding...
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