Asa Dunnington

Selectively Lawless (eBook, ePUB)

The True Story of Emmett Long, an American Original

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The true life story of a gunslinging, gambling moonshiner is recounted in this "cheerful, wild...rollicking biography" by the outlaw's own nephew ( Forward Reviews).

Born to a Texas sharecropping family in 1904, Emmett Long soon fell in love with fast engines and fast living. An associate of legendary outlaws like Pretty Boy Floyd and Frank Nash, Emmett rose from poverty to infamy as a prodigious gambler, moonshiner, bank robber, and-on occasion-a killer of men. But he was not your average outlaw.

From an early age, Emmett made his own rules-and he stuck to them, too. Instead of dying young in a blaze of guns and fury, he found Christianity, married a good woman, raised a family, and lived to a ripe age as a successful rancher. In a new twist to the classic Great Depression outlaw narrative, Asa Dunnington shares the life story of his uncle in Selectively Lawless.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brown Books Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781612543161
• Artikelnr.: 58644793

Autorenporträt

Asa Dunnington was born June 7, 1939, in Logan, Iowa.He has had a wide variety of fascinating jobs, from writing for a newspaper to serving in the Air Force to working on a Presidential campaign. His first wife was Emmett Long's niece, and when Dunnington met Emmett on a family vacation, he knew he had found someone special. Asa agreed to record Emmett's life. Asa is now married to his second wife, Cheryl.He has three children and nine grandchildren. He's also written his autobiography, What a Life!.