Castle Garden

Albert, Bill, Alpert, Bill

ISBN 10: 1877946672 / ISBN 13: 9781877946677

Published by Permanent Press (NY), 1996

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Synopsis: He had arrived in America in 1887, but we first met him in 1906 when it seemed he may be approaching the end of his story, for he has been arrested from blowing up the ex-governor of Idaho, a murder which lead to one of the most celebrated trials of the period. The men questioning him wan t him to implicate Big Bill Haywood, leader of the IWW and the Western Federation of Miners. Wanting to save himself, he tells the detectives stories they want to hear. He also tells stories he wants us to hear. They are not always the same, but they are all true stories of the American West. His subsequent experiences, as he flees further west, pursued by Pinkerton detectives, provide a story of violence and class conflict found neither in the Wild West Show, nor in the dime novels. He finds himself increasingly entangled in an American West which is dangerously too real, and a fate which has led him to a cold prison cell and the threat of the gallows.

About the Author: Bill Albert was born in New York and grew up in Southern California. He moved to England in 1964 and until recently taught history at the university in Norwich, where he still lives with his wife, his young daughter, and occasionally their other four children. Besides writing, he is active in the disability movement. His first novel, Desert Blues, was published in 1994.

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Title: Castle Garden
Publisher: Permanent Press (NY)
Publication Date: 1996
Book Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition.