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"The Derienni", or, Land pirates of the isthmus. Being a true and graphic history of robberies, assassinations, and other horrid deeds perpetrated by those coolblooded miscreants, who have infested for years the great highway to California, the Eldorado of the Pacific ... Together with the lives of three of the principal desperadoes as narrated by themselves

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1853.
Call number: 41656
Dimensions: 22 cm
Associated people: Orton, A. R.
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