The Saga of Ben Holladay: Giant of the Old West
- ISBN-10
- 0803866410
- ISBN-13
- 9780803866416
- Category
- Transportation / General
- Pages
- 374
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1959
- Publisher
- Hastings House
- Author
- Ellis Lucia
Description
From Holladay's personal records, letters, and artifacts, and from scattered reports and observation of friends and foes, the author has written of Ben Holladay and the West he knew.
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