Heathcliff! Heathcliff! and his even prettier horse!
Odd Western; the perfect Western man is so wild he can't live among men, but follows the wild geese; dangerously attractive to man and woman (and horse and wolf-dog). Oddly, one symptom is his whistling like 's lark; endless ornate flights of unformed seductive music.
Starts slowly, ends sadly.
Project Gutenberg file 12436 , The Night Horseman.
So wrote clew in Fiction (20th c.).