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Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. ) From the back cover: ' One night in 1892 the Wild West went east. As the American Express Special train sped through New York State a masked man boarded and single-handedly stole a fortune. Oliver Curtis Perry instantly became the country's most wanted man. ..After one of the most extraordinary chases in history, he was caught and sentenced to 49 years hard labour. If the authorities believed they had beaten this celebrity criminal they were mistaken. Perry's prison life was as remarkable as his robberies as he turned escape-artist, hunger striker, and finally poet, in his determination to win his freedom.' More than just the incredibly sad story of one man who refused to bow to authority, this is a picture of America at a crossroads, when outlaws were replaced by gangsters, when change was everywhere; an indictment of the inhumanity of the prison system; a fascinating story of a woman missionary, Amelia Haswell who befriended him and was implicated in an escape attempt; and the story of a man so determined to have some control over his life - or so insane -that he blinded himself. 240 pp. Fine in printed white wrappers. .

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