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03020aam a2200517Mi 4500 001 DD479A2251FA11EE8558B5752EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230913010035 007 tb 007 tb 008 230623t20232011meu d 000 f eng d 010 $a 2023936699 020 $a 1638088411 020 $a 9781638088417 020 $a 1638088373 020 $a 9781638088370 035 $a (OCoLC)1385397279 040 $a CPLPT $b eng $e rda $c CPLPT $d OCLCF $d CHY $d SILO 043 $a n-us-nv 050 4 $a PS3515.O4448 $b S56 2023d 082 04 $a 813/.52 $2 23/eng/2019 100 1 $a Holmes, L. P. $q (Llewellyn Perry), $d 1895-1988, $e author. 245 10 $a Singing wires : $b a western story $h [large print] / $c L.P. Holmes. 250 $a Center Point Large Print edition. 264 1 $a Thorndike, Maine : $b Center Point Large Print, $c 2023. 300 $a 263 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm 340 $n large print. $2 rdafs 500 $a Regular print version originally published in the U.S. by Five Star. 500 $a First published in Ranch Romances as a 4-part series in 1950-1951. 520 $a "When word of the Pony Express being formed reached Clay Roswell in Texas, he decided to get a job as a rider. He was told his best chance for such a job was along the desert stretch in Nevada Territory, so that was where he headed. Along the trail, he met two brothers, Jess and Hoke Pickard, and agreed to team up with them, at least as far as Salt Lake. They made camp one night in Weber CanÌon, east of Salt Lake, but as Roswell lay in his blankets, the Pickards tried to club him to death. They stole his money and his horses, and left him for dead. It took Roswell a long time to make it to Fort Churchill in Nevada Territory, only to find that the Pony Express was shutting down and the only jobs available were with crews being hired to string telegraph wires across the desert. And it was there in Fort Churchill that Roswell saw the Pickard brothers again, applying for work with the superintendent of the telegraph company. Roswell's brawl with the brothers then and there was an unlikely introduction to superintendent Jack Casement, but he liked what he saw in Roswell and offered him the job as wagon boss for the outfit. Only the fight with the Pickards was not over, and conflict with Indians and an organized gang of highjackers would be added to the challenges now facing Roswell."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Telegraph $x History $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Wagon trains $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Outlaws $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Revenge $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Brigands and robbers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Large type books. 651 0 $a Nevada $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Large print books. 650 0 $a Western fiction. 650 0 $a Large print books. 941 $a 2 945 $a lpt 952 $l BNPD611 $d 20231010012100.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20230913010254.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DD479A2251FA11EE8558B5752EECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search