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02454aam a2200409 4500 001 27EE7D8E9D4711ED878FFD0553ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230126010044 008 220729t20232022meu d 000 1 eng 020 $a 1432887270 020 $a 9781432887278 040 $d SILO 100 $a Boggs, Johnny D. 245 $a The cobbler of Spanish fort and other frontier stories $c Johnny D. Boggs. 250 $a Large print. 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company $c 2022. 300 $a 335 pages (large print) 520 $a "Setting up shop in rip-roaring Spanish Fort, Texas, in the early 1870s, Big Eddie Hager outfitted many cowboys in boots as they headed up the Chisholm Trail. Hager's fame and his company grew with the years, turning Hager Boots & Company, Incorporated, into a global legend. But when a Dallas newspaper reporter arrives in what's left of Spanish Fort, an old-timer sets the record straight by telling the true story of the man behind the Hager legend-the real cobbler of Spanish Fort. 520 $a A Piano at Dead Mans Crossing tells the story of an Arizona frontier family from the viewpoint of an upright grand piano. A Comanche warrior imprisoned at Florida's Fort Marion attempts to paint his way to freedom in Comanche Camp at Dawn; Buffalo Bill Cody and his wife fight it out to save their marriage in The Cody War; and Wild Bill Hickok umpires a baseball game in Kansas City in Umpire Colt. Don't expect gunfights on dusty streets. Boggs fills these 21 Western, Civil War and Southern tales, old and new, with quirky cowboys, revenge, humor, heroes, baseball, teens coming of age, and even a kid playing cowboys and Indians with his mothers hair curlers" 650 $a Large type books 650 $a Frontier and pioneer life 650 $a Historical fiction 650 $a Western fiction 650 $a West United States 941 $a 10 945 $a lpt 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409043702.0 952 $l SMPE094 $d 20240104021447.0 952 $l CPPC926 $d 20231111010312.0 952 $l BVPE851 $d 20230419010056.0 952 $l HIPC765 $d 20230331152959.0 952 $l KAPF566 $d 20230331014542.0 952 $l ZBPE245 $d 20230207012534.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20230204010804.0 952 $l JBPC145 $d 20230201155709.0 952 $l EZPE755 $d 20230126010224.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=27EE7D8E9D4711ED878FFD0553ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search