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   Message 465 of 1,275   
   Von Fourche to Gerald Clough   
   Re: Wild West Lit   
   06 Apr 04 04:03:05   
   
   From: monaco8292@hotmail.com   
      
   "Gerald Clough"  wrote in message   
   news:e-SdnRTTsY7CFvLdRVn-iQ@texas.net...   
      
   > Sensational books, then as now, did well. I suspect that in a fairly   
   > remote mining town, one might find anything, whatever made its way to   
   > town being accepted and welcomed. The Wide Wide World was a a preachy   
   > domestic novel appealing, but it is sometimes credited with being the   
   > first "bestseller".   
      
      
    I suppose they didn't have Playboy back then did they?  lol.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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