Title: 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
Time periods: 1850-1950