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"The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind."
-Darryl Ponicsan
(ca. Tom Mix Died for Your Sins: A Novel Based on His Life (New York: Delacorte Press, 1975), p. 135)
Call Number FICTION MATTHIESSEN
Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, Shadow Country reimagines the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself relentlessly toward his own violent end at the hands of neighbors who mostly admired him, in a killing that obsessed his favorite son.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE WIND
When poachers hunt down birds so they can sell the feathers for women's hats, newly hired Everglades warden Walt Murdock is ordered to bring in Cottonmouth, the brutal leader of the gang. Captured deep within the swamps, Murdock takes a gamble and accepts the outlaw's offer to surrender if the warden makes it back to town before Cottonmouth can kill him
