Quoting rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com:
> There are 8 messages in this issue.
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> Topics in this digest:
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> 1a. Old Pulp Character, from Kentucky?
> From: David Wright
> Messages
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> 1a. Old Pulp Character, from Kentucky?
> Posted by: "David Wright" dwright333@yahoo.com dwright333
> Date: Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:42 am ((PDT))
>
> Searching for some stories - maybe pulp stories? - that sound almost like a
> latter-day Solomon Kane sort of thing: thought I'd drop this into the Brain
> Trust to see if anyone knew it right off:
>
> "The stories all took place in the 1820s and '30s in Kentucky and/or
> Tennessee I
> believe. One book included Davy Crockett. Another contained a somewhat
> supernatural element--a bad person or creature that could be stopped
> only with a
> silver bullet. One of the good guys carves a silver bullet from a coin and
> successfully kills the bad creature/person with the bullet, fired from his
> muzzle-loader (probably a Kentucky long-rifle). I cannot recall the
> author or
> any of the book titles. I am guessing that the books date to the
> '30s give or
> take a decade."
>
> Thanks,
>
> David Wright
>
>
>
I think you want Melville D. Post's Uncle Abner stories.
Marsha Valance
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