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_aThompson, E. V. _q(Ernest Victor), _d1931-2012. _916998 |
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_aNo less than the journey / _cE.V. Thompson. |
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_aLondon : _bRobert Hale, _c2008. |
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520 | _aHISTORICAL FICTION. Wesley Curnow, a young Cornish miner, arrives in the United States to seek an uncle who is working on the mines in Missouri. Taking passage on a boat from New York, bound for New Orleans, he meets up with a charismatic U.S. marshal who is en route to the western territories to bring law to the area.After a gun fight with pirates on the Mississippi River and an encounter with an attractive half-Mexican croupier, Wes parts company with his companions only to find his uncle has been forced to move away. Wes faces a serious altercation with German miners, meets an old 'Mountainman' who teaches him proficiency with a revolver, and then faces a journey overland through inhospitable country. But can he survive the journey? | ||
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