Willie Boy: A Desert Manhunt.
LAWTON, Harry.
Willie Boy: A Desert Manhunt.
First Edition of Willie Boy: A Desert Manhunt; Inscribed by Harry Lawton
Corona Del Mar, California: The Paisano Press, 1960.
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First edition basis for the classic 1969 film Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here starring Robert Redford. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the dedication page, “For Doris with the author’s best wishes and hope she enjoys this story Harry Lawton.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Don Perceval.
Willie Boy: A Desert Manhunt by Harry Lawton is a compelling work of narrative nonfiction that explores the 1909 manhunt for Willie Boy, a Chemehuevi-Paiute man accused of killing his lover’s father in Southern California. Through meticulous research and a journalist’s eye for detail, Lawton reconstructs the events surrounding the incident, situating it within the broader context of Native American marginalization, media sensationalism, and myth-making in the American West. The book challenges the dominant narrative of Willie Boy as a violent outlaw by considering indigenous perspectives and historical nuance, ultimately questioning how truth is constructed through power and prejudice.
