The Lawless (1978)

by John Jakes

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Series: The Kent Family Chronicles (7)

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John Jakes is the bestselling author of Charleston, the Kent Family Chronicles, the North and South trilogy, On Secret Service, California Gold, Homeland, and American Dreams. Descended from a soldier of the Virginia Continental Line who fought in the American Revolution, Jakes is one of today's most distinguished authors of historical fiction.… (more)

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The Lawless

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1978

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Jeremiah Kent

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Pistols are almost as numerous as men. It is no longer thought to be an affair of any importance to take the life of a fellow being.
Nathan A. Baker, October 13, 1868; editorializing in the Cheyenne Leader

What is the chief end of man?--to get rich. In what way? --dishonestly if we can; honestly, if we must. Who is God, the one only and true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock--father, son, and the ghost of same--three persons in one; these are the true and only God, mighty and supreme...
Samuel Clemens, "The Revised Catechism" publ. New York Tribune, September 27, 1871

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In memory of my father.

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They hunted buffalo and lived in the open, away from the settled places.

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John Jakes is the bestselling author of Charleston, the Kent Family Chronicles, the North and South trilogy, On Secret Service, California Gold, Homeland, and American Dreams. Descended from a soldier of the Virginia Continental Line who fought in the American Revolution, Jakes is one of today's most distinguished authors of historical fiction.

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