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Item Details
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SKIDOO
A JOURNEY THROUGH THE GHOST TOWNS OF THE AMERICAN WEST |
| By: |
Alex Capus, John Brownjohn (Trans) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1907973958 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781907973956 |
| Publisher: |
THE ARMCHAIR TRAVELLER AT THE BOOKHAUS |
| Pub. date: |
20 March, 2014 |
| Pages: |
84 |
| Translated from: |
German |
| Description: |
In the company of bank robbers and grave diggers, desperadoes and cunning Indians, Alex Capus visits the Wild West's ghost towns, discovering bizarre stories that are a match for any Western. |
| Synopsis: |
In the company of bank robbers and grave diggers, desperados and cunning Indians, brewers and failing inventors, Alex Capus visits the Wild West's ghost towns, where he descends into a disused silver mine and looks for traces left by the robbers who held-up stage coaches in Death Valley. Capus discovers stories that are a match for any Western: In Bodie the gravediggers used dynamite rather than shovels to blow holes in the ground; in the town of Skidoo, Hootch Simpson, a brawling bartender, was first hung by the mob, then by the law, before being beheaded during his autopsy; in Flagstaff, Capus finds that the legendary Route 66 was, for a time at least, a trail for Edward Fitzgerald Beale's 'Camel Corps'. |
| Illustrations: |
50 |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
The Armchair Traveller at the BookHaus |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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