A History of the Detection, Conviction, Life and Designs of John A. Murel, The Great Western Land Pirate …

by Augustus Q. Walton

$650 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Portrait frontispiece, 5 plates. ii , 17 -84, iii - xiii . 1 vols. 8vo. Original wrappers. Extremities a little rubbed, but still a very good copy. Howes W 76; Adams Six-Guns 2nd ed. 2301; Cohen 14041 note ; Sabin 101209. Item #313262 This famous, but misunderstood, American outlaw narrative was actually taken from the papers of Virgil Stewart, a willing participant in Murrell's plans. Stewart raised the spectre of Murrell as a mass

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