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Billy Gashade

In 1863 a sixteen-year-old boy from a prominent family is caught up in the New York City Draft Riots. Fleeing retribution from the Tammany Hall gang, the boy becomes Billy Gashade, a musician in saloons and pleasure houses out west. Throughout his years wandering from place to place, Billy meets characters who become legends: Calamity Jane, chief Crazy Horse, and Billy the Kid to name a few.

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  • "In 1863 a sixteen-year-old boy from a prominent family is caught up in the New York City Draft Riots. Fleeing retribution from the Tammany Hall gang, the boy becomes Billy Gashade, a musician in saloons and pleasure houses out west. Throughout his years wandering from place to place, Billy meets characters who become legends: Calamity Jane, chief Crazy Horse, and Billy the Kid to name a few."@en
  • "A boy from a prominent family is caught up in the New York City Draft Riots. Fleeing retribution from the Tammany Hall gang, the boy becomes Billy Gashade."
  • "The adventures of a young, upper-class New Yorker who gets into trouble in the Civil War draft riots and flees west. On the frontier he meets gamblers, Indians, outlaws and mountain men, and has run-ins which such famous characters as General Custer and Wild Bill Hickok. Twenty years later he returns, only to take off again, this time to write cowboy songs for the movie industry in Hollywood."@en
  • "The adventures of a young, upper-class New Yorker who gets into trouble in the Civil War draft riots and flees west. On the frontier he meets gamblers, Indians, outlaws and mountain men, and has run-ins which such famous characters as General Custer and Wild Bill Hickok. Twenty years later he returns, only to take off again, this time to write cowboy songs for the movie industry in Hollywood."
  • "The adventures of a young, upper-class New Yorker who gets into trouble in the Civil War draft riots and flees west. On the frontier he meets gamblers, Indians, outlaws and mountain men, and has run-ins with such famous characters as General Custer and Wild Bill Hickok. Twenty years later he returns, only to take off again, this time to write cowboy songs for the movie industry in Hollywood."@en
  • "Billy is 16 years old when he critically injures a henchman of infamous crook Boss Tweed during the 1863 New York draft riots. Running for his life, Billy heads for the frontier and finds work playing piano in various saloons. In his travels he crosses paths with such legendary figures as Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Chief Crazy Horse, "Wild Bill" Hickok, and even literary legend Oscar Wilde. Eventually, Billy finds himself in Hollywood as the film industry begins to explode."@en

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  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Downloadable audio books"
  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Western stories"@en
  • "Western stories"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Talking books"@en
  • "Musical fiction"@en

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  • "Billy Gashade"@en
  • "Billy Gashade"

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