Captain Lightfoot The Last of the New England Highwaymen
Frederick W. Waldo, "Captain Lightfoot: The Last of the New England Highwaymen"
English | ISBN: 048680612X | 2016 | 176 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
A desperado in the shadow of the gallows recounts his life of crime in this rollicking seventeenth-century memoir. Michael Martin, better known as Captain Lightfoot, confessed his history of highway robbery to a Boston reporter shortly before his execution. Martin had cut a dashing figure as Captain Lightfoot, renowned for his courtly manners and his Robin Hood-like predilection for stealing only from well-to-do men. His tale of adventure and intrigue, punctuated by daring escapes and desperate shootouts, created a sensation upon its 1821 publication.