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Calamity Papers, The: Western Myths and Cold Cases
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SKU: VHP530832S
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Sale Ends: 5/30/12
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Calamity Papers, The: Western Myths and Cold CasesArtist: Dale L. WalkerTribe:Walker replicates his prior expedition into enigmas of the Old West, Legends and Lies (1997), & stokes curiosity in a half-dozen tales. The author speculates on a number of issues, including whether Meriwether Lewis was a suicide or murder victim in 1809 and whether he was a swain to Aaron Burr's daughter, Theodosia. Why did Sam Houston abandon his wife and the governorship of Tennessee? Who was Calamity Jane? Who or what burned down novelist Jack London's house in 1913? Walker's inquests extend to murder mysteries, which, if not the most notoriously recognizable in Old West lore, partake of the ever-popular motif of Old West outlawry. Was Thomas Meagher (a Montana territory military officer, commemorated by a statue before the state capitol) the victim of foul play in 1868? Who murdered New Mexico? Territory's law-and-order stalwart Albert Fountain in 1896? Did the killer of the sheriff who dispatched Billy the Kid get away with murder? Walker ably taps the taste for historical detective work.
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