| A First Family of Tasajara Contributor(s): Harte, Bret (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798706501143 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2021 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Westerns - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.29" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" (0.73 lbs) 136 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Book Excerpte money's comin' from for both.""There's water enough in front of 'Lige Curtis's shanty, and hislocation is only a mile along the bank," returned Billings."Water enough for him to laze away his time fishin' when he'ssober, and deep enough to drown him when he's drunk," said Wingate."If you call that an embarcadero, you kin buy it any day from'Lige, --title, possession, and shanty thrown in, --for a demijohn o'whiskey."The fourth man here distastefully threw back a half-nibbled biscuitinto the box, and languidly slipped from the barrel to the floor, fastidiously flicking the crumbs from his clothes as he did so. "Ireckon somebody'll get it for nothing, if 'Lige don't pull upmighty soon. He'll either go off his head with jim-jams or jumpinto the creek. He's about as near desp'rit as they make 'em, andhavin' no partner to look after him, and him alone in the tules, ther' 's no tellin' WHAT he may do."Billings, stretched at full length in his chair, here gurgledderisively. "Desp'rit!-Read |