Item #18609 Prodigal Sons: The Adventures of Christopher Evans and John Sontag (SIGNED). Wallace Smith.

Prodigal Sons: The Adventures of Christopher Evans and John Sontag (SIGNED)

Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by the author. 8vo. 434pp, including appendix. Six black & white photographic plates. Red cloth covered boards; gilt titles to front board and spine in publisher's illustrated dustjacket. Light wera to extremities; darkening to spine; else a near fine copy. Item #18609

"The most extensive book on Evans and Sontag to date, and also the most authentic." (Adams Six Guns #2055). Based on interviews with many old timers who still remembered Evans and Sontag, the author tells the story of these notorious boys who were accused but never convicted of being mail train robbers.

Price: $175.00

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