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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
Coady’s former captors on their trail and with outlaw
Comancheros up ahead. In The Big Fifty—another name for
the famous Sharps rifle—Johnny 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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