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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aEllis, Edward Sylvester,
_d1840-1916
245 1 0 _aLightning Jo, the Terror of the Santa Fe Trail: A Tale of the Present Day
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2021
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2021-06-01
508 _aDavid Edwards, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (Northern Illinois University Digital Library at http://digital.lib.niu.edu/)
520 _a"Lightning Jo, the Terror of the Santa Fe Trail: A Tale of the Present Day" by Capt. J. F. C. Adams is a historical novel written in the mid-19th century. The story is set against the backdrop of the American West, where the central focus revolves around the heroic efforts of Lightning Jo and a group of frontier men as they attempt to rescue beleaguered families from a brutal Comanche attack. The novel captures themes of courage, survival, and the fierce struggle between settlers and Native American tribes during a tumultuous period in history. At the start of the novel, a desperate message arrives at Fort Adams, detailing a harrowing situation where a group of settlers, including women and children, are under siege by Comanche warriors at Dead Man’s Gulch. The messenger, Jim Gibbons, relays the urgent need for help after a fierce two-day battle that has left many casualties. Colonel Greaves of the fort decides to send a hundred men, led by the renowned scout, Lightning Jo, to assist the beleaguered group. As the story unfolds, readers are introduced to the mounting tension of the rescue mission amidst the perilous conditions of the frontier, setting the stage for a gripping narrative of heroism and relentless conflict against overwhelming odds. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aWestern stories
653 _aFrontier and pioneer life -- Fiction
653 _aDime novels
653 _aComanche Indians -- Fiction
653 _aSanta Fe National Historic Trail -- Fiction
653 _aScouts (Reconnaissance) -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65487
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