Railroad schemes

Description:

The adventures of a bank robber in 1850s California and the 15-year-old girl who keeps him company. He is King Callahan and he has declared war on greedy railroad barons, she is sweet Lily, who reads classics when not holding a gun. One of these days, he says, he will give up crime to look after her. By the author of Pacific Street.

subjects: Outlaws,  Fiction,  Southern Pacific Railroad Company,  History,  Gold mines and mining,  Gold discoveries,  Railroad stories,  Large type books,  New York Times reviewed,  Fiction, historical, general,  California, fiction

Places: California

Times: 1850-1950