The Machiavellian's of Dodge City: The Antic Stories of Luke McGlue
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The selected short stories are founded upon a fictitious character but are based on true accounts. This is the story of a mischief-maker by the name of Luke McGlue.The character in these stories transcends from the perceptiveness of their personality; the way the character might have perceived the realization of his times. In the mid-1800s, the people of Dodge had a fictitious person; a person they could blame for all sorts of mayhem.
His name was Luke McGlue. He was credited with many devious deeds. These wily deeds were concocted out of the antic minds of the first settlers of Dodge City. They were frontiersmen, doctors, lawyers, fraternity members, and gangsters. Their purpose of these Machiavellian actions was to lay down the severe conditions whereby an outsider became a member of the group – known as the Dodge City Gang. Many of the gang members would pull a prank then pass it off on another individual or on a fictitious person by the name of Luke McGlue. These are some of the stories of the mischief-makers of Dodge City, which takes place from 1877 to 1880; a time when Dodge City Kansas was full of pranksters. |
