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Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1375471341
Author : Emerson Hough
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752372250
Reproduction of the original: The Story of the Outlaw by Emerson Hough
Author : Emerson Hough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Criminology
ISBN : OCLC:221698252
Author : Emerson Hough
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Crime
ISBN : 9781465611840
Energy and action may be of two sorts, good or bad; this being as well as we can phrase it in human affairs. The live wires that net our streets are more dangerous than all the bad men the country ever knew, but we call electricity on the whole good in its action. We lay it under law, but sometimes it breaks out and has its own way. These outbreaks will occur until the end of time, in live wires and vital men. Each land in the world produces its own men individually bad—and, in time, other bad men who kill them for the general good. There are bad Chinamen, bad Filipinos, bad Mexicans, and Indians, and negroes, and bad white men. The white bad man is the worst bad man of the world, and the prize-taking bad man of the lot is the Western white bad man. Turn the white man loose in a land free of restraint—such as was always that Golden Fleece land, vague, shifting and transitory, known as the American West—and he simply reverts to the ways of Teutonic and Gothic forests. The civilized empire of the West has grown in spite of this, because of that other strange germ, the love of law, anciently implanted in the soul of the Anglo-Saxon. That there was little difference between the bad man and the good man who went out after him was frequently demonstrated in the early roaring days of the West. The religion of progress and civilization meant very little to the Western town marshal, who sometimes, or often, was a peace officer chiefly because he was a good fighting man. We band together and "elect" political representatives who do not represent us at all. We "elect" executive officers who execute nothing but their own wishes. We pay innumerable policemen to take from our shoulders the burden of self-protection; and the policemen do not do this thing. Back of all the law is the undelegated personal right, that vague thing which, none the less, is recognized in all the laws and charters of the world; as England and France of old, and Russia to-day, may show. This undelegated personal right is in each of us, or ought to be. If there is in you no hot blood to break into flame and set you arbiter for yourself in some sharp, crucial moment, then God pity you, for no woman ever loved you if she could find anything else to love, and you are fit neither as man nor citizen. As the individual retains an undelegated right, so does the body social. We employ politicians, but at heart most of us despise politicians and love fighting men. Society and law are not absolutely wise nor absolutely right, but only as a compromise relatively wise and right. The bad man, so called, may have been in large part relatively bad. This much we may say scientifically, and without the slightest cheapness. It does not mean that we shall waste any maudlin sentiment over a desperado; and certainly it does not mean that we shall have anything but contempt for the pretender at desperadoism. Who and what was the bad man? Scientifically and historically he was even as you and I. Whence did he come? From any and all places. What did he look like? He came in all sorts and shapes, all colors and sizes—just as cowards do. As to knowing him, the only way was by trying him. His reputation, true or false, just or unjust, became, of course, the herald of the bad man in due time. The "killer" of a Western town might be known throughout the state or in several states. His reputation might long outlast that of able statesmen and public benefactors.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1293653527
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Author : Emerson Hough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1511841044
"Though the exploits of Western bad men have been greatly exaggerated in novels and films, many of these guys were pretty nasty characters, killing and stealing without remorse. This 1906 title profiles many of the real baddies and the legendary lawmen who brought them to justice." -Library Journal "His book is distinguished by a scrupulously careful moderation of statement." -The New York Times "The pages exhale the smell of blood and hemp. The realism is almost too raw for literature." -Literary Digest "Historically exact [and] filled with shocks and thrills of no ordinary caliber." -The Spectator The Desperado-Analysis of His Make-up The Imitation Desperado-The Cheap "Long-Hair"-A Desperado in Appearance, a Coward at Heart The Land of the Desperado-The Frontier of the Old West-The Great Unsettled Regions-The Desperado of the Mountains- The Desperado of the Early Railroad Towns. The Early Outlaw-The Frontier of the Past Century-The Bad Man East of the Mississippi River-The Great Western Land-Pirate, John A. Murrell-The Greatest Slave Insurrection Ever Planned. The Vigilantes of California-The Greatest Vigilante Movement of the World-History of the California "Stranglers" The Outlaw of the Mountains-The Gold Stampedes of the '60's-Armed Bandits of the Mountain Mining Camps. Henry Plummer- The Head of the Robber Band in the Montana Mining Country Boone Helm-A Murderer, Cannibal, and Robber-A Typical Specimen of Absolute Human Depravity. Death Scenes of Desperadoes-How Bad Men Died-The Last Moments of Desperadoes -Utterances of Terror, of Defiance, and of Cowardice. Joseph A. Slade-A Man with a Newspaper Reputation- A Product of Courage Plus Whiskey, and the End of the Product. The Desperado of the Plains-Lawlessness Founded on Loose Methods-The Rustlers of the Cow Country-Excuses for Their Acts-The Approach of the Commercial West. Wild Bill Hickok-The Beau Ideal of the Western Bad Man; Chivalric, Daring, Generous, and Game . Frontier Wars-Armed Conflicts of Bodies of Men on the Frontiers-Political Wars; Town Site Wars; Cattle Wars-Factional Fights. The Lincoln County War-The Bloodiest, Most Dramatic and Most Romantic of all the Border Wars-First Authentic Story Ever Printed of the Bitterest Feud of the Southwest. The Stevens County War-The Bloodiest County Seat War of the West-The Personal Narrative of a Man Who Was Shot and Left for Dead-The Most Expensive United States Court Case Ever Tried. Biographies of Bad Men-Desperadoes of the Deserts-Billy the Kid, Jesse Evans, Joel Fowler, and Others Skilled in the Art of Gun Fighting. The Fight of Buckshot Roberts-Encounter Between a Crippled Ex-Soldier and the Band of Billy the Kid-One Man Against Thirteen. The Man Hunt-The Western Peace Officer, a Quiet Citizen Who Works for a Salary and Risks His Life-The Trade of Man Hunting-Biography of Pat Garrett, a Typical Frontier Sheriff. Bad Men of Texas-The Lone Star State Always a Producer of Fighters-A Long History of Border War-The Death of Ben Thompson. Modern Bad Men-Murder and Robbery as a Profession-The School of Guerrilla Warfare-Butcher Quantrell; the James Brothers; the Younger Brothers. Bad Men of the Indian Nations-A Hotbed of Desperadoes -The Dalton Boys-The Most Desperate Street Fight of the West. Desperadoes of the Cities-Great Cities Now the Most Dangerous Places-City Bad Men's Contempt for Womanhood-Nine Thousand Murders a Year, and Not Two Hundred Punished-The Reasonableness of Lynch Law.
Author : Emerson Hough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Crime
ISBN : 9798573293
The American West offered abundant opportunities for those seeking gold and gunfights, fame and infamy. Popular Western writer Emerson Hough (1857-1923) was the author of the history The Story of the Cowboy and of the classic Western novel The Covered Wagon (which in 1923 became the first epic film of a now long-standing genre). He was a friend of Sheriff Pat F. Garrett, whom he accompanied on a long horseback trip in New Mexico while gathering material for The Story of the Outlaw (1905)." "Based on firsthand research, and frequently recounted in the actual words of outlaws and eyewitnesses, Hough's history explores the varied lives, exploits, crimes, and fates of cattle rustlers, horse thieves, marauders, bandits, bank robbers, and assassins. The Story of the Outlaw also examines notorious border wars, vigilante movements, and other armed frontier conflicts." "Besides revealing the facts behind mythic Western outlaws like Billy the Kid, William Clarke Quantrill, Cole Younger, Frank and Jesse James, and the Dalton Gang, and lawmen like "Wild" Bill Hickok and Pat F. Garrett, Hough brings to life lesser-known but equally deadly desperados: Henry Plummer, who, under the respectable guise of sheriff, murdered and robbed those he was elected to protect; Boone Helm, a hired killer and part-time cannibal; Joseph A. Slade, reputed to carry as a souvenir his enemy's ear on his watch chain; and many others.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Classified catalogs
ISBN : NYPL:33433089896439
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : America
ISBN : UOM:39015079633007
Author : Dover Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Catalogs, Classified
ISBN : UIUC:30112041713154
Author : Emerson 1857-1923 Hough
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1372060073
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Author : Emerson Hough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Americana
ISBN : UOM:39015027789844
Author : Emerson Hough
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1330697529
Excerpt from The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado As for the subject-matter of the following work, it may be stated that, while attention has been paid to the great and well-known instances and epochs of outlawry, many of the facts given have not previously found their way into print. The story of the Lincoln County War of the Southwest is given truthfully for the first time, and after full acquaintance with sources of information now inaccessible or passing away. The Stevens County War of Kansas, which took place, as it were, but yesterday and directly at our doors, has had no history but a garbled one; and as much might be said of many border encounters whose chief use heretofore has been to curdle the blood in penny-dreadfuls. Accu racy has been sought among the confusing statements purporting to constitute the record. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : England
ISBN : UOM:39015051447772
Author : Emerson Hough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Crime
ISBN : 1620118645
Though born in Iowa, author Emerson Hough moved to rural New Mexico and practiced as a frontier lawyer there for many years. Along the way, he met some very interesting characters, including many of the Wild West's most infamous outlaws. This volume includes biographies and narrative sketches that detail the lives and misdeeds of some of the most notorious desperadoes.
