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Telegraph Days

Telegraph Days

by Larry McMurtry

2006OrphansTelegraphersBrothers and sistersGunfightsFiction
4.0
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First lines

"I HOPE YOU'RE carpenter enough to build an honest coffin," I told Jackson, my younger brother.

About this book

Recounts myths of the closing decades of the western frontier viewed through the eyes of Nellie Courtright and her brother Jackson, orphans that make good in the town of Rita Blanca in what would become the Oklahoma Panhandle.

Themes & subjects

OrphansTelegraphersBrothers and sistersGunfightsFictionSingle women
First published 2006

Setting

California

About the author

Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry

1936-06-03 – 2021-03-25

Author

Larry McMurtry

First published

2006

Pages

416

Read time

≈ 10h

Editions

8

Language

English

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

ISBN

9780743476911

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