The Swamp Outlaws

U.S.A.: Scholar Select. Reprint . Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A very crisp and clean used copy; almost new and unread condition; gift quality! Red and black wrapper with white lettering. 98 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! "The homely old adage that there is nothing 'new under the sun' is constantly verified by actual facts occuring every day. The accounts handed down by tradition of 'the bold archer Robin Hood' keeping whole counties on the alert, and disputing the right to kill fat bucks in the royal forest with the boldest barons, have seemed almost too daring for belief, yet here we have - in this enlightened period of the world's history - a whole State of the most powerful and most enlightened nation of the earth successfully defied by a band of less than a dozen Outlaws. Individual hunters essay to track and capture them, and their bones bleach in the forest paths for their temerity, troops - regular and irregular - attempt their subjugation and are ingloriously repelled by these dauntless, law-defying Bandits.........." ---- from the Introduction.