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Watson, a newcomer to the lawless Everglades, is greatly admired by his neighbors for his growing sugarcane plantation. But as it grows, so does the mystery that surrounds him--did he really shoot and kill Belle Starr? Did he kill anyone else? He is a devoted husband and father, gifted farmer, man of progress, and visionary. But is he also a killer? And will his neighbors ultimately rise up against him? Peter Mattheissen reconstructs what could have happened based on the barest of facts and much local legend and conjecture.

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"...an imaginative and haunting evocation of a time and a place."

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Bookseller Inventory #: 933
Format/binding: Hardcover
Quantity available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0394554000
ISBN 13: 9780394554006
Publisher: Random House
Place: New York
Date published: 1990
Size: 6.75 x 9.5 x 1.25 inches
Weight: 1.6 pounds
Keywords: Fiction Speculative Fiction, Gothic Horror, Fantasy

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