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Bad company and burnt powder : justice and injustice in the Old Southwest
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This book is a portrait of twelve lawmen or criminals or of famous events in the American Southwest in the late 1800s to the early 1900s. The events take place in Arizona Territory, Texas, or New M...
This book is a portrait of twelve lawmen or criminals or of famous events in the American Southwest in the late 1800s to the early 1900s. The events take place in Arizona Territory, Texas, or New Mexico Territory.--Adapted from the ECIP Data View Summary.
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- Creator
- Bob Alexander
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, [2014]
- Physical Details
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- xxiii, 456 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781574415803, 9781574415667, 1574415662, 1574415808
- OCLC
- ocn879329614, ocn890071227
- Chiefly on Texas.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 422-439) and index.
- Bullets at Bullhead Mountain -- A modern Hercules to the rescue -- Murders and madness at Millican -- Shooting him with pistols and guns -- Has a wolfish look, Is bold to recklessness -- Son, don't take your guns to town -- The plum was ripening fast -- Six-shooters, sermons and sour mash -- I'm shot all to pieces, everything quiet -- Most feared gangster of the time -- Good man, bad boy, big gun -- Distractions of frontier life
Subjects
- Texas Rangers -- History.
- Law enforcement -- Texas -- History.
- Crime -- Southwestern States -- History -- 19th century.
- Crime -- Southwestern States -- History -- 20th century.
- Law enforcement -- Southwestern States -- History -- 19th century.
- Law enforcement -- Southwestern States -- History -- 20th century.
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Southwestern States.
- Southwestern States -- History -- 19th century.
- Southwestern States -- History -- 20th century.