Sundance, My Uncle

DONNA B. ERNST

Publication: The Early West, Creative Publishing Company, 1992, College Station

First edition, first printing. 8vo. Author's first book. Limited to 1500 copies. Signed by the author and by her husband, Paul Ernst, a descendant of the Longabaugh family. Red cloth, titles stamped in black on the spine, red, pictorial endpapers, 224 pp., author's preface, illustrated, chapter endnotes, appendix, bibliography, index, about the author. Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, moved west from Pennsylvania and eventually met up with the McCarty brothers, Butch Cassidy, and Matt Warner. The friendships that developed among Harry and his friends created more excitement than he ever could have imagined. When bad weather caused him to lose his job as a cowboy, he took another man's horse and saddle and headed south to find work. He was caught in Sundance, Wyoming and put in jail. Afterwards was the beginning of the Sundance Kid, the outlaw. He teamed up with Butch Cassidy and the Hole in the Wall Gang to become one of the West's most enduring mysteries and legends known as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. As new, unread copy in like dust jacket.

Inventory Number: 34087