num_pages: 123
description: An unlikely trio of a deaf-mute Black fighter, his elderly manager, and a young orphan girl travel the Florida countryside putting on fight shows. Her name was lucky, because Nose, an old Irisher, decided how lucky he was when he and Baptist (his big negro deaf-mute) found her, a baby wrapped in a potato sack and dumped in their DUKES wagon, [about 13] years back.From then on, it was the three of them, riding a wagon from town to town through swamp-country Florida during the early 1900s, trying to save enough money from Baptist's fisted dukes to eventually buy a patch of dirt and build a home to settle down to.Adapted from the jacket flap.
language: English
title: Dukes
titlecomplete: Dukes
characters: Lucky, Nose McColgan, Baptist
ratings_count: 2
places: Caloosa, Florida
publisher: Pineapple Press Inc.