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American Legends Collection volume Book Three
Pub. Date
2013.
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J.T. Latham is incarcerated in Yuma Territory Penitentiary. Sheriff Del Buchman frees him in exchange for Latham being his guide through the Sonora Desert to make a prisoner exchange with some dangerous banditos.
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Pub. Date
2013
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Wil Chama was interviewed in 1938 as a contributor to the American Legends Collection, a part of the Federal Writers' Project. Speaking into an Edison Dictaphone he narrated the events of his life. His personal narrative included his involvement as a strike breaker in what became known as the Gunnison Affair.
It was as a result of this shameful episode that he gained his reputation as a gunman and sought to bury himself as a driver of a salt wagon...
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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Boone McCallister was interviewed in 1937 for the American Legends Collection, a part of the Federal Writer's Project. Speaking into an Edison Dictaphone, he narrated the events concerning a dangerous cattle drive in Florida back when the state was still largely unsettled. Here is the story of a young man's first cattle drive in 1864 and the legend of David Klee and an encounter with an alligator.
4) Charlie Red
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American Legends Collection volume Book 5
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"Tom Slade is riding shotgun for the Colorado and Prescott Stagecoach Company, in charge of delivering $45,000 in cash to the mines in central Arizona, when the stage is robbed at an isolated way station. Most men would have gone on to Prescott for help, but Slade knows he doesn't have that kind of time if he hopes to catch up with the thieves before they disappear into the desert. Alone and riding a worn-out harness mule, Slade grimly sets off in...
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American Legends Collection volume 6
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In 1904, sixteen-year-old Billy Pinto watches as the three men accused of murdering his Shoshone mother are set free, simply because the judge and prosecuting attorney don't believe they can successfully try white men for the killing of an Indian. Stunned by the court s decision, Billy decides to take justice into his own hands. He ambushes the three killers outside of town, then kidnaps the judge's granddaughter before fleeing into the remote San...
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American Legends Collection volume 7
Pub. Date
2023.
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"When a decades-old feud between a wealthy plantation owner named Watson and a mixed-blood Chickasaw family explodes in violence, Elijah Two-Buck finds himself homeless and on the run. Locating his brother, the infamous Kid Jace, and his gang of cattle rustlers, Lige reluctantly joins the band of thieves. But when a Watson-led raid on the Two-Buck family farm results in the loss of innocent lives and the law refuses to intervene, the brothers realize...