"Nine Mile Swamp: A Story Of The Loomis Gang" 1941 DANIELS, Harriet McDougal
$350
DANIELS, Harriet McDougal
[412] pp.
The Penn Publishing Company
1941
First Edition
8 3/8" x 5 7/8"
Jacket design by Carl Becker
VG/ VG
"Nine Mile Swamp" was their headquarters - a weird and beautiful spot, blooming with lady-slippers, an impenetrable hiding place for men and horses. Here "Wash" Loomis raised his family, with an eye to their usefulness in counterfeiting and conducting adroit deals in horseflesh - until "The Loomis Gang" became a phrase to stile terror and angry resentment into those who knew their secret and felt their power. There were unforgettable figures among the Loomises - Wash himself, leader of men, who could outdrink any man in New York State; Rhoda, his mother, iron-souled matriarch of the clan; young Plum, whose soul was fiercely torn between his loyalty to Wash and his desperate desire to live decently among decent men. The reader will not forget them, their lawless depredations, or their tragic end.