Forty-one Thieves A Tale of California (Paperback)

More than thirty-five years have passed since my father, returning from the scene of Cummins' murder, related the circumstances. With Mat Bailey, the stage-driver, with whom Cummins had traveled that fatal day, he had ridden over the same road, had passed the large stump which had concealed the robbers, and had become almost an eye-witness of the whole affair. My father's rehearsal of it fired my youthful imagination. So it was like a return to the scenes of boyhood when, thirty-six years after the event, I, too, traveled the same road that Cummins had traveled and heard from the lips of Pete Sherwood, stage-driver of a later generation, the same thrilling story. The stump by the roadside had so far decayed as to have fallen over; but it needed little imagination to picture the whole tragedy. In Sacramento I looked up the files of the Daily Record Union, which on Sept. 3, 1879, two days after the event, gave a brief account of it. There was newspaper enterprise for you An atrocious crime reported in a neighboring city two days afterward Were such things too common to excite interest? Or was it felt that the recital of them did not tend to boom the great State of California?

General

Imprint:	Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2012
First published:	August 2012
Authors:	Angelo Hall
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 7mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	126
ISBN-13:	978-1-4783-9230-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Myth & legend told as fiction Promotions
LSN:	1-4783-9230-4
Barcode:	9781478392309

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