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ready to die for love. He just needed to find the right girl. October 1891. Tom Rourke is a
poet struggling to make a life amongst the Irish migrant workers in Butte Montana. He is a
doper and a drinker and a fearsome degenerate. His life is heading nowhere fast. That is until
he meets Polly Gillespie the new bride of a devout mine captain and a thunderbolt love affair
takes spark. Tom and Polly strike out west on a stolen horse. But a posse of deranged Cornish
gunsmen are in hot pursuit of the lovers and closing in fast . . .
