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The Wild Bunch at Robbers Roost (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Wild Bunch at Robbers Roost (Paperback, New Ed)
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Loot Price R440
Discovery Miles 4 400
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Robbers Roost was a hideout for outlaws and hunted men long before
Butch Cassidy found it in 1884. The impenetrable wastes and wilds
of this high desert country in southeastern Utah, cut through by
canyons along the Green and Colorado rivers and bounded on the west
by the Dirty Devil, discouraged lawmen from pursuit. Growing up on
a ranch that included Robbers Roost, Pearl Baker heard many of the
legends about-and talked to many who remembered-the notorious Wild
Bunch. In the 1890s they spread over Utah, Wyoming, Montana,
Colorado, and Arizona rustling cattle, stealing horses, robbing
banks and trains, and often taking cover at Robbers Roost. Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Flat Nose George and the Curry boys,
Elzy Lay, Gunplay Maxwell, the McCarty boys, Peep O'Day, Silver
Tip, Blue John, and Indian Ed Newcomb-they all come to rip-roaring
life while courting death in The Wild Bunch at Robbers Roost. In
his introduction to the Bison Books edition, Floyd A. O'Neil,
director of the American West Center at the University of Utah,
discusses landscape, the law and the Wild Bunch, and Pearl Baker's
lifelong preparation for this lively book. Purchase the audio
edition.
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