{"publishers": ["1st World Library"], "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "From the book:It was inevitable that in my efforts to write romantic history of the great West I should at length come to the story of a feud. For long I have steered clear of this rock. But at last I have reached it and must go over it, driven by my desire to chronicle the stirring events of pioneer days.  Even to-day it is not possible to travel into the remote corners of the West without seeing the lives of people still affected by a fighting past. How can the truth be told about the pioneering of the West if the struggle, the fight, the blood be left out? It cannot be done. How can a novel be stirring and thrilling, as were those times, unless it be full of sensation? My long labors have been devoted to making stories resemble the times they depict. I have loved the West for its vastness, its contrast, its beauty and color and life, for its wildness and violence, and for the fact that I have seen how it developed great men and women who died unknown and unsung"}, "source_records": ["marc_overdrive/InternetArchiveCrMarc-2010-06-11r.mrc:8223915:2190"], "title": "To the Last Man", "identifiers": {"overdrive": ["EDF397AE-CC72-40DF-B71A-F1DBD48CBB91"]}, "physical_format": "eBook", "isbn_10": ["1595405976"], "publish_date": "2006", "publish_country": "nyu", "key": "/books/OL24298748M", "publish_places": ["Fairfield"], "works": [{"key": "/works/OL485543W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "oclc_numbers": ["70069747"], "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2010-06-23T23:01:27.818205"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-10-14T05:05:41.644305"}}