This gripping book brings alive a daring 1910 prison escape and a relentless 24-year manhunt that pitted inmates against their keepers, the citizenry of Canada against the American brand of justice, and one man against his pursuers and the demons of his past.
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This gripping book brings alive a daring 1910 prison escape and a relentless 24-year manhunt that pitted inmates against their keepers, the citizenry of Canada against the American brand of justice, and one man against his pursuers and the demons of his past.
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Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; Type: Remainder First Printing. Hardcover Book in Good Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. Eight pages of historic photographs. Clean and unmarked black and cream binding, no edgewear, tight & solid. Intact endbands. Internals quite clean and completely free from any markings. Unclipped glossy clean jacket is rubbed and has slight wear to spine head. In 1909 Frank Grigware was sentenced to life in Leavenworth, the first federal penitentiary, for a crime he did not commit. He escaped with five other convicts by hijacking a supply train and ramming the joint's west gate. He spent the next 24 years as America's most elusive fugitive. Four-time Pulitzer Prize nominee Joe Jackson tells Grigware's story in the waning days of the Old West. 416 pages with Notes, Bibliography and Index. 6.25 x 9.3 inches. 2001, Carrol & Graf Publishers, New York, New York, USA.
