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"The Long Chance" is a classic Western about a gambler in a parched desert town named San Pasqual. It is a simple yet descriptive story filled with adventure that'll make an interesting read for people of all ages.
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Peter B. Kyne
A native of San Francisco, Peter B. Kyne was a prolific screenwriter and the author of the 1920 bestseller Kindred of the Dust. His stories of Cappy Ricks and the Rick's Logging & Lumbering Company were serialized in The Saturday Evening Post and William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan magazine. He died in 1957.
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