Michael Wallis
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In this new revisionist biography, award-winning historian Michael Wallis, the best-selling author of Route 66, re-creates the rich, anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid (1859-1881), a deeply mythologized young man who became a legend in his own time and remains an enigma to this day. Book jacket.
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Pub. Date
[2007]
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" The best-selling author of Route 66 and a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer celebrate America's first transcontinental highway in all its neon glory. It began in 1913 with a glorious new highway—stretching across 3,389 miles and 13 states—that connected the bright lights of Broadway with the foggy shores of San Francisco. It was a magnificent and meandering road that enticed millions of newly motoring Americans to hop into their Model Ts...
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Pub. Date
2011
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"...A compendium that flows chronologically from 1830 to 1930 with each day providing a concise text and accompanying images. The daily entries found at the top of the pages are generally not connected to the tale told by the main text and images, but constitute a separate running diary of incidents or events that actually happened on that specific date. A landmark event or a particularly compelling personality may get fleshed out by more than one...
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