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A piano player wanders the Old West, meeting up with famous characters such as Frank and Jesse James, Oscar Wilde, and William "Billy the Kid" Bonney, among others, and finds that they were neither as bad or as good as their reputations suggested.
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Young Billy Gashade is just 16 years old when the New York draft riots break out in 1863. In the course of saving a wounded policeman from one of Boss Tweed's boys, Billy ends up on the wrong side of the Boss and is forced to flee the city. As he wanders across the continent, he encounters Quantrill's Confederate guerrillas in Kansas, Frank and Jesse James, Wild Bill Hicock, Billy the Kid and General George Armstrong Custer, to name just a few. What makes Loren D. Estleman's Billy Gashade such a pleasure to read is not the historical luminaries that grace his pages but rather his hero's low-key reactions to them. Estleman combines history and fiction with a lively prose style to fashion a book that readers will be eager to recommend--if not lend--to their friends.
About the Author
Loren D. Estleman was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a BA degree in English Literature and Journalism in 1974. In 2002, the university awarded him an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters for his contribution to American literature.
He is the author of more than fifty novels in the categories of mystery, historical western, and mainstream, and has received four Western Writers of American Golden Spur Awards, three Western Heritage Awards, and three Shamus Awards. He has been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, Britain's Silver Dagger, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. In 2003, the mammoth Encyclopedia of Detective Fiction named him the most critically acclaimed writer of U.S. detective
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- PublisherForge Books
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 031285997X
- ISBN 13 9780312859978
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages384
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