''The Apple Dumpling Gang'' is a 1971 novel by Jack Bickham, about a group of orphaned children during the

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. They encounter a gambler who reluctantly helps them, as well as a pair of hapless robbers who are after the gold the children have found. In 1975

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made a film based on the book. The name of the gang refers to the American dessert.

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