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Author : Harry E. Chrisman
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1969-04-01
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 0804006148
Author : Jim Herron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : OCLC:1184596793
Author : Harry E. Chrisman
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1998-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0806130172
Lost Trails of the Cimarron is Harry Chrisman's folk history of nineteenth-century Cimarron country - southwestern Kansas, southeastern Colorado, and the neutral strip of Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. Buffalo hunters entered the area in violation of the Medicine Lodge Treaty, followed by cowboys and settlers who formed a vast economy based on grass and beef, the beginnings of prominent cattle ranches such as the Westmoreland-Hitch Outfit. Chrisman details the history of the outlaws and ruffians of "No Man's Land" and trail drives to Dodge City and beyond. Numerous illustrations accompany the anecdotes and stories of various frontier personalities. A new foreword by Jim Hoy also appears in this edition.
Author : Jim Herron
Publisher : Swallow Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : UOM:39076005596940
Author : Karen Holliday Tanner,John D. Tanner
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806181783
Soft-spoken, cheerful, handsome, and well dressed, George West Musgrave “looked more like a senator than a cattle rustler.” Yet he was a cattle rustler as well as a bandit, robber, and killer, “guilty of more crimes than Billy the Kid was ever accused of.” In Last of the Old-Time Outlaws, Karen Holliday Tanner and John D. Tanner, Jr., recount the colorful life of Musgrave (1877-1947), enduring badman of the American Southwest. Musgrave was a charter member of the High Five/Black Jack gang, which was responsible for Arizona’s first bank hold-up, numerous post office and stagecoach robberies, and the largest Santa Fe Railroad heist in history. Following a decade-long hunt, he was captured and acquitted of killing a former Texas Ranger. After this near brush with prison or execution, he headed for South America, where he gained fame as the leading Gringo rustler. It wasn’t until the 1940s that Musgrave’s age and poor health brought an end to a criminal career that had spanned two continents and two centuries. Incorporating previously unknown facts about the career of this frontier outlaw, the Tanners thoroughly document Musgrave’s half-century of crime, from his childhood in the Texas brush country to his final days in Paraguay.
Author : Ramon Frederick Adams
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0486400352
Authoritative guide to everything in print about lawmen and the lawless—from Billy the Kid to the painted ladies of frontier cow towns. Nearly 2,500 entries, taken from newspapers, court records, and more.
Author : Robert K. DeArment
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0806137843
The complete story of the controversial county seat wars that raged in Kansas from 1885 to 1892 is told in this narrative that relives the violence that only avarice can breed and offers detailed portraits of such notorious participants as Sam Wood, Bat Masterson, Theodosius Botkin, and Bill Tilghman.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1510 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006357243
Author : Charles G. Worman
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0826335934
The many roles played by guns in the old West with personal accounts by many early settlers and hundreds of photos.
Author : C. Robert Haywood
Publisher : Prairie Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Dodge City (Kan.)
ISBN : 9780974622224
History of the trails from Dodge City Kansas to points in Oklahoma and Texas used primarily for trade from 1880 through the turn of the century.
Author : Larry D. Ball
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826325013
Elected for two-year terms, frontier sheriffs were the principal peace-keepers in counties that were often larger than New England states. As officers of the court, they defended settlers and protected their property from the ever-present violence on the frontier. Their duties ranged from tracking down stagecoach robbers and serving court warrants to locking up drunks and quelling domestic disputes.The reality of their job embraced such mandane duties as being jail keepers, tax collectors, quarantine inspectors, court-appointed executioners, and dogcatchers.
Author : Robert K. DeArment
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806182650
Think gunfighter, and Wyatt Earp or Billy the Kid may come to mind, but what of Jim Moon? Joel Fowler? Zack Light? A host of other figures helped forge the gunfighter persona, but their stories have been lost to time. In a sequel to his Deadly Dozen, celebrated western historian Robert K. DeArment now offers more biographical portraits of lesser-known gunfighters—men who perhaps weren’t glorified in legend or song, but who were rightfully notorious in their day. DeArment has tracked down stories of gunmen from throughout the West—characters you won’t find in any of today’s western history encyclopedias but whose careers are colorfully described here. Photos of the men and telling quotations from primary sources make these characters come alive. In giving these men their due, DeArment takes readers back to the gunfighter culture spawned in part by the upheavals of the Civil War, to a time when deadly duels were part of the social fabric of frontier towns and the Code of the West was real. His vignettes offer telling insights into conditions on the frontier that created the gunfighters of legend. These overlooked shooters never won national headlines but made their own contributions to the blood and thunder of the Old West: people less than legends, but all the more fascinating because they were real. Readers who enjoyed DeArment’s Deadly Dozen will find this book equally captivating—as gripping as a showdown, twelve times over.
Author : John Wesley Morris
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : 0806114207
Lists 130 ghost towns in alphabetical order and includes descriptions of each.
Author : William Rathmell
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574411799
Rathmell's book, biased in favor of the five Marlow brothers, has long been out of print. Robert K. DeArment has sifted through the evidence and presents an objective, annotated edition. Readers can judge for themselves: were the Marlows as law-abiding as Rathmell claims?
Author : Tom Clavin
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250214591
THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Tombstone is written in a distinctly American voice." —T.J. Stiles, The New York Times “With a former newsman’s nose for the truth, Clavin has sifted the facts, myths, and lies to produce what might be as accurate an account as we will ever get of the old West’s most famous feud.” —Associated Press The true story of the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the famous Battle at the OK Corral, by the New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City and Wild Bill. On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, eight men clashed in what would be known as the most famous shootout in American frontier history. Thirty bullets were exchanged in thirty seconds, killing three men and wounding three others. The fight sprang forth from a tense, hot summer. Cattle rustlers had been terrorizing the back country of Mexico and selling the livestock they stole to corrupt ranchers. The Mexican government built forts along the border to try to thwart American outlaws, while Arizona citizens became increasingly agitated. Rustlers, who became known as the cow-boys, began to kill each other as well as innocent citizens. That October, tensions boiled over with Ike and Billy Clanton, Tom and Frank McLaury, and Billy Claiborne confronting the Tombstone marshal, Virgil Earp, and the suddenly deputized Wyatt and Morgan Earp and shotgun-toting Doc Holliday. Bestselling author Tom Clavin peers behind decades of legend surrounding the story of Tombstone to reveal the true story of the drama and violence that made it famous. Tombstone also digs deep into the vendetta ride that followed the tragic gunfight, when Wyatt and Warren Earp and Holliday went vigilante to track down the likes of Johnny Ringo, Curly Bill Brocius, and other cowboys who had cowardly gunned down his brothers. That "vendetta ride" would make the myth of Wyatt Earp complete and punctuate the struggle for power in the American frontier's last boom town.