Unbeknownst to me until a few weeks ago I had a rather famous step grandfather. And it seems that the world forgot about him … so I feel compelled to tell his story. Frederick Ferdinand Moore jumped on a cattle ship in Boston Harbor in the 1890s when he was 15. He became an adventurer, weaver, sailor, soldier, novelist, pulp fiction writer, intelligence officer, war correspondent and murdered marshal. I didn’t know any of that. Perhaps my stepmother told me about her famous father but I don’t recall it. My dad…

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