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Highwayman Printer Encounters Fellow Tramp In Woods
An 1883 reminiscence describes a highwayman who robs a tramp printer near Joplin Missouri, then reveals his own failed editorial career and joins him for a night in a forest camp. The pair discuss writing styles, a potential partnership, and the editor’s later journey to Fort Smith where a condemned man is to be hanged.
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America
True & CO
Augusta
Woods
King’s Highway
Joplin
Neosho
Arkansas Line
Banner
Weekly
Echo
Iowa
Chetopn
Kan
Jim
Kansas
Nebraska
Tve
Joseph Gillam
Neosuo
Gillam
Mr. Gillam
Lulu
Earth
Fayetteville
Ozark
Clarksville
van Buren
Fort Smith
The
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