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Smash the wild bunch, Giles A. Lutz

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Smash the wild bunch

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Giles A. Lutz

"Under mounting pressure from his displeased superiors in Washington, Evett Nix, chief Marshal of Oklahoma, launches one final desperate plan to round up the notorious Bill Doolin and his deadly gang, the Wild Bunch. Nix calls on his old friend, Frank Grimes, a former lawman turned farmer, to help find Doolin. Frank, with his impetuous and mercurial younger brother, Chad, set out undercover as farmers looking to buy some land. They find Doolin holed up in the dusty prairie town of Ingalls - a town too small to warrant a railroad stop and too insignificant to justify the presence of a lawman - the perfect hideout. In Ingalls, the brothers encounter many suspicious characters, and a pair of remarkable women as well. Young Chad's heart is captured at the first sight of the wide-eyed Nella Ellsworth. Nella, however, is caught between her growing affection for Chad and her unspoken allegiance to her stepsister, Edith, who is secretly married to Bill Doolin. Nix and his posse set out to bring in Doolin, but find themselves in a bloody gun battle from which Doolin escapes - a humiliating failure for Nix. What follows is a riveting account of Doolin's flight across the unforgiving terrain of the American West, with a bitter and determined Evett Nix close on his heels."--, Provided by publisher