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Barr Lassiter

A young soldier returning from war to a home that greets him with silence, a cold hearth, and a family who will not speak his name.

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Also known as The elder Lassiter, Lassiter

First appearance: the secret of macarger s gulch

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Barr Lassiter walks up the gravel path to the house where he was born, expecting two years of war to have aged him past recognition, and finds every familiar object unchanged but every familiar face turned away. His…

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