Struck a Lead: An Historical Tale of the Upper Lead Region

Excerpt from Struck a Lead: An Historical Tale of the Upper Lead RegionRutledge looked dismayed - he was broke. A stranger standing at his elbow who had watched the game and saw that Rutledge held a sure hand, lent him a large bundle of bank notes, and whispering to him, here, young man are fifty thousand dollars, brag it all. In the meantime Mr. Black had borrowed all the funds of his fellow blacklegs to meet the emergency.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.