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Leisure Books
February 2004
On Sale: February 1, 2004
229 pages
ISBN: 0843953187
EAN: 9780843953183
Mass Market Paperback
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Western
The reality of frontier life in Kansas in 1872 becomes brutally clear to twelve-year-old Coady McIlvain when his father is scalped by hostile Indians and Coady is taken prisoner. Coady is determined to escape and does so, falling in with a buffalo sharpshooter named Dylan Griffith, whom he sees as the embodiment of his hero, Buffalo Bill Cody, a role in which the circumspect Griffith feels himself totally inadequate. The two face real adventure surviving the unforgiving terrain with Coadyโs former captors on their trail and with outlaw Comancheros up ahead. In The Big Fiftyโanother name for the famous Sharps rifleโJohnny D. Boggs has created a gripping Western story balancing the myths and legends created by Eastern storytellers with the actual, often brutal realities of frontier life.
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