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It was a vital link in the economic chain that connected businesses in the east and west of the nation, stopping to pick up freight along a route that finally led to Chicago. An uncle worked as a carpenter for Buffalo Bill and stayed in the New York hotel run by Colonel Tom Thumb. The names of the western outlaw gangs, Reno, James, Younger, were already legendary.

Although the photograph was taken over a hundred years ago, he looks shockingly modern. With his photograph always in my head, if not my pocket, I proved a better detective than I would be a thief.

  In the end I discovered a man of greater complexity and power than the handsome outlaw I had been hunting. Yet today, apart from sketches of brief moments in his life, he is a forgotten man, his story lost.

Their methods were brutal but their origins in civil war conflict attracted the sympathy of some ex-Confederates and many romantics. When I got home, I was so racked with guilt that I buried it in the part of the garden we called the wilderness. Among the immigrants who arrived daily from the Old World were radicals, socialists and anarchists, determined, in different ways, to forge a better society.

Was it the same challenging, wounded look that compelled me so long after his death?

3. A few radicals believed they were no more ruthless than the respectable 'robber barons'of the east. Each is locked into his or her own world and time. Beneath the gilded surface of the age something very much like class war was simmering. The technology of war, as ever, propelled the peacetime nation into a new age in which memories of loss mingled with hopes of gain.

More and more people kept flooding into the state but the competition from more fertile agricultural lands in the west hit the upstate farmers hard. Outside, it looked just like any other, a wooden wagon with a solid door at each end and sliding panel doors with windows in the sides. These were violent crimes, with trains derailed or blown apart and trainmen forced to defend their basic livelihoods with their lives.

But what if they search your pockets when you leave?

  I didn't check because, when I walked into the library, I had absolutely no intention of stealing. Exploited workers, in the mines and on the railroads, turned to desperate measures. .'

  6 'It's a long time to wait and I don't like the idea'

  7 His Career Ended!

  8 Perry Dons the Stripes

  9 'God forgive us all .

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