{"product_id":"2940169917949","title":"The Big Fifty","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe reality of frontier life in Kansas in 1872 becomes brutally clear to twelve-year-old Coady McIlvain when his father is scalped by hostile Indians and Coady is taken prisoner. Coady is determined to escape and does so, falling in with a buffalo sharpshooter named Dylan Griffith, whom he sees as the embodiment of his hero, Buffalo Bill Cody, a role in which the circumspect Griffith feels himself totally inadequate. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe two face real adventure surviving the unforgiving terrain with Coady¿s former captors on their trail and with outlaw Comancheros to be avoided. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Big Fifty\u003c\/i\u003e¿another name for the famous Sharps rifle¿Johnny D. Boggs has created a gripping Western story with constant juxtapositions between the myths and legends created by Eastern storytellers out of the actual often brutal realities of frontier life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150420984048,"sku":"2940169917949","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169917949_p0.jpg?v=1769902954","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169917949","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}