01578cam a2200337 4500 555532451 TxAuBib 20220503120000.0 190415s2019||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2019011340 9781643582351 hardcover : alk. paper 1643582356 hardcover : alk. paper (OCoLC)1090278097 TxAuBib Boggs, Johnny D. The fall of Abilene / Johnny D. Boggs. First edition. Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2019. ©2019. 326 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. Noah Benton, a teenager with a great memory, a head for arithmetic, and dreams of excitement, is hired along with his older brother to help drive a herd of Texas longhorns to Abilene, Kansas. But Noah's trail boss happens to be John Wesley Hardin, a notorious killer who thinks Texas lawmen won't look for a fugitive in a crew of hard-working cowboys. After Hardin sees a profit in Noah's ability to count and memorize cards in gambling dens, Noah's dreams of excitement quickly turn into nightmares -- for Hardin will kill with little provocation. 20220503. Cattle drives Fiction. Brothers Fiction. Outlaws Fiction. Card counting Fiction. Texas Fiction. Western stories. Historical fiction. Biographical fiction.