He and a Cavalier named Hadji Ali, or “Jolly,” together with some of the other soldiers, steal their camel mounts and create their own “Camel Corps,” an outlaw gang.Īt home that evening, Nora is visited by her friend, the local Sheriff Harlan Bell. Army’s Camel Cavaliers, a (real historical) unit of camel-mounted soldiers headed for the Southwest. Berger relentlessly tracks Lurie, forcing Lurie to flee from state to state, picking pockets to support himself (and driven, in part, by the “want” of the late Hobb). The Matties split up and flee their separate ways. Federal Marshal John Berger issues a warrant for the whole gang. During a fight, Lurie kills a teenage boy from New York, and U.S. In death, Hobb has been reduced to an all-consuming “want.” Lurie, Donovan, and some of Donovan’s cousins form the criminal Mattie Gang. When Hobb dies of typhoid, Lurie finds himself haunted by Hobb’s ghost. He starts running with the Mattie brothers, Hobb and Donovan, a pair of low-level outlaws. As a child, Lurie supports himself by robbing graves and is eventually forced to flee his hometown.
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