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American Legends collection volume 2
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English
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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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"In 1885, young Rose Edwards is widowed by Montana vigilantes. Penniless and illiterate, yet fiercely independent, Rose begins a two-year odyssey to revisit the land of her childhood and finds herself a reluctant hero in an ageless battle as she stubbornly pushes back against the destruction of the land she loves"--
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An intriguing tale of métis buffalo hunts, a long-lost daughter, and a macabre secret.
Big John McTavish has been hunting and trading among the métis buffalo hunters of the Red River Valley for more than thirty years. He's a trusted member of the half-breed nation, and a leader of the mixed-bloods' twice-yearly buffalo hunts. However, when he returns to the settlements in the fall of 1832 with a mountain man he's rescued from a Chippewa war party,...
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