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Whispering Smith /

An adventure story and 'railroad novel' set in the Old West. The story was adapted for film in 1915, again in 1926, and yet again in 1948 when it became Alan Ladd's first color western. A television show based on the character, Whispering Smith, and starring Audie Murphy premiered in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spearman, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1859-1937 (Author)
Corporate Author: Scribner Press (Printer)
Other Authors: Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945 (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906.
Subjects:
Railroads > Employees > Fiction.
Railroad police > West (U.S.) > Fiction.
Travailleurs des chemins de fer > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Railroad police
Railroads > Employees
West United States
Fictional Work
Western fiction
Railroad fiction
Detective and mystery fiction
Action and adventure fiction
Fiction
Western stories.
Fiction.
Railroad fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Western fiction.
Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding)
Publishers' advertisements > New York (State) > New York > 20th century.
Romans.
Description
Summary:An adventure story and 'railroad novel' set in the Old West. The story was adapted for film in 1915, again in 1926, and yet again in 1948 when it became Alan Ladd's first color western. A television show based on the character, Whispering Smith, and starring Audie Murphy premiered in 1961 but was cancelled after only one episode due to allegations filed by the Senate Juvenile Delinquency Committee that it was too violent.
Item Description:Printer statement from device of The Scribner Press on title page verso.
Title within double ruled border.
Frontispiece facing title page and plates facing pages 26, 132, and 302.
Advertisements on pages [ii] and on pages [423]-[424] at end.
Physical Description:ix, 421,pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm