Selectively lawless, the true story of Emmett Long, an american original
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Selectively lawless, the true story of Emmett Long, an american original
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Selectively lawless
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electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Sub title
the true story of Emmett Long, an american original
Summary
The true life story of a gunslinging, gambling moonshiner is recounted in this biography by the outlaw's own nephew. Born to a Texas sharecropping family in 1904, Emmett Long soon fell in love with fast engines and fast living. An associate of legendary outlaws like Pretty Boy Floyd and Frank Nash, Emmett rose from poverty to infamy as a prodigious gambler, moonshiner, bank robber, and-on occasion-a killer of men. But he was not your average outlaw. From an early age, Emmett made his own rules-and he stuck to them, too. Instead of dying young in a blaze of guns and fury, he found Christianity, married a good woman, raised a family, and lived to a ripe age as a successful rancher. In a new twist to the classic Great Depression outlaw narrative, Asa Dunnington shares the life story of his uncle in Selectively Lawless
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adult
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