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1) Paradise sky
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Young Willie is on the run, having fled his small Texas farm when an infamous local landowner murdered his father. A man named Loving takes him in and teaches him to shoot, ride, read, and garden. When his mentor dies, Willie re-christens himself Nat Love in tribute and heads west. In Deadwood, South Dakota Territory, Nat becomes a buffalo soldier and is befriended by Wild Bill Hickok. His peerless marksmanship and charm earn Nat the nickname...
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2014.
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English
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Nat Love, the one and only Deadwood Dick of the dime novel era, writes down his version of certain events, straightening out numerous misconceptions raised in the popular and sanitized dime novels. Author Joe R. Lansdale's stories about Nat Love are based loosely on the real Nat Love, who may have told a few windies about his time in the West, but at the same time revealed that African-Americans of that era were not all cooks and custodians. In fact,...
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