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...
