THE BALLAD OF CAT BALLOU by ROY CHANSLOR, 1st / 1st 1956 HC
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THE BALLAD OF CAT BALLOU by ROY CHANSLOR ~ First Edition / First Printing, 1956 Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Co, Boston (1956)
The boards and binding are solid and tight with little shelf-wear. The pages are crisp and clean save for some natural tanning to the first blank page. Otherwise, no interior markings. Please see below for more information and an overview of the classic CAT BALLOU!
Book Review
Wolf City,
Wyoming. Kid Shelleen convinces his partner-in-crime Frankie Ballou to
go to the Saturday night dance instead of their usual visit to Crib
Street and there he meets Cathy Morgan, the prettiest schoolmarm west of
the Mississippi. It's love at first sight and the two ride away into
the night to hitch the knot and Frankie plans to go straight - until
he's caught red-handed with the loot from their latest train robbery and
he's hauled off to jail. Kid and the rest of the *gang* free him and
Cathy joins him at Robber's Roost, their mountain top hideout where
their daughter Cat is born. Old Doc, Cathy's father, gets Frankie a
pardon (long story) and eventually they save enough to buy a piece of
land in Purple Valley - but it's a piece of land the Cattlemen's
Association needs to run their herds through - and thus begins a heated
battle that ends in tragedy for Cat.
