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Tells the story of a teenage boy growing up in Texas during desperate times. Willy, wise and capable beyond his years, learns the gambler’s trade and experiences adventures that demand quick wits - and sometimes violent actions. This is a multilayered story, full of Old West motifs such as cattle-rustling and gunfights along with more modern twists.

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'This novel has an appeal as wide as Texas and a historic sweep that is purely American.'
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'It is the tension that drives this bildingsroman...that keep us going...so that we don't want it to end.'
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The Gamblers Apprentice West Word Fiction

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    A Hardback by H. Lee Barnes

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      Publisher: MP-NEV University of Nevada
      Publication Date: 2/29/2016 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780874179989, 978-0874179989
      ISBN10: 087417998X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Tells the story of a teenage boy growing up in Texas during desperate times. Willy, wise and capable beyond his years, learns the gambler’s trade and experiences adventures that demand quick wits - and sometimes violent actions. This is a multilayered story, full of Old West motifs such as cattle-rustling and gunfights along with more modern twists.

      Trade Review
      'This novel has an appeal as wide as Texas and a historic sweep that is purely American.'
      -New York Journal of Books


      'It is the tension that drives this bildingsroman...that keep us going...so that we don't want it to end.'
      Ralph Magazine

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