Outlaws of the Pacific Northwest

by Bill Gulick (Paperback)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.58 x 8.94 x 6.10
• Publisher: Caxton Press; (June 1, 2000)
• ISBN: 087004396X
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: 960,194

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Book Description
In 1950, a new novel, "Bend in the Snake" was released. The story was the first book-length effort by a young writer named Bill Gulick. It was later made into the motion picture, "Bend in the River", starring Jimmy Stewart.

Caxton Press celebrates Bill Gulick's fiftieth anniversary as one of the Northwest's best-known writers with the release of "Outlaws of the Pacific Northwest".

Gulick believes the bad men and women of the Northwest never have received the recognition of their counterparts in other parts of the West, although their exploits often exceeded those of better known outlaws. "Outlaws of the Pacific Northwest" is Gulick's attempt to rectify that historical oversight.

Chief Bigfoot was a legendary renegade giant who allegedly roamed the high desert of southern Idaho in the 1860s, bringing death and destruction to the early settlers.

Sheriff Henry Plummer and his gang may have murdered more than 100 people in the Montana mining camps before outraged citizens gave him a "suspended sentence" on his own gallows.

The Walla Walla establishment operated by Josephine Wolfe was a community institution. When "Dutch Jo's" house was quarantined because of scarlet fever, the mayor, police and fire chiefs, two ministers and six merchants were marooned there for two weeks.

Gunfighter Hank Vaughn cut a wide swath for years in eastern Oregon. The last of the area's professional hellraisers died "with his boots on,"-when his horse slipped on a new concrete sidewalk!

From the Publisher
In 1950, a new Western novel appeared on bookstore shelves around the nation. Bend in the Snake, the first book by young writer named Bill Gulick, was so well received that it was made into a major motion picture-Bend in the River, starring Jimmy Stewart.

During the past half century, Bill Gulick has written more than thirty fiction and nonfiction Western books, several screenplays and dozens of newspaper and magazine articles. He is one of the legendary figures in Western writing.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of his first book, we dedicate Outlaws of the Pacific Northwest to Bill Gulick, and his charming wife, Jeannie.

The Publishers