True Story Of Notorious Arizona Outlaw Augustine Chacón The

Author : David Grassé
Publisher : History Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1540249042

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True Story of Notorious Arizona Outlaw Augustine Chacón by David Grassé Pdf

By the time he was hanged in 1903, Augustine Chacón had become the most notorious Mexican outlaw in the Arizona Territory. His alleged crimes had made him a virtual legend, but the facts show that Chacón wasn't the bloodthirsty fiend he was made out to be. Journalists of the era chased sensationalist stories, pandering to a readership that longed for excitement. Each retelling of Chacón's exploits added outlandish details, painting the escaped prisoner as a brutal gunman responsible for as many as fifty-two murders. In reality, Augustine Chacón may not even have killed the man he was hanged for shooting. Join author David Grassé as he uncovers the true story of Arizona's most enduring criminal legend.

Author : David Grassé
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439673348

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The True Story of Notorious Arizona Outlaw Augustine Chacón by David Grassé Pdf

By the time he was hanged in 1903, Augustine Chacón had become the most notorious Mexican outlaw in the Arizona Territory. His alleged crimes had made him a virtual legend, but the facts show that Chacón wasn't the bloodthirsty fiend he was made out to be. Journalists of the era chased sensationalist stories, pandering to a readership that longed for excitement. Each retelling of Chacón's exploits added outlandish details, painting the escaped prisoner as a brutal gunman responsible for as many as fifty-two murders. In reality, Augustine Chacón may not even have killed the man he was hanged for shooting. Join author David Grassé as he uncovers the true story of Arizona's most enduring criminal legend.

Author : David Grassé
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467147965

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True Story of Notorious Arizona Outlaw Augustine Chacón, The by David Grassé Pdf

By the time he was hanged in 1903, Augustine Chacón had become the most notorious Mexican outlaw in the Arizona Territory. His alleged crimes had made him a virtual legend, but the facts show that Chacón wasn't the bloodthirsty fiend he was made out to be. Journalists of the era chased sensationalist stories, pandering to a readership that longed for excitement. Each retelling of Chacón's exploits added outlandish details, painting the escaped prisoner as a brutal gunman responsible for as many as fifty-two murders. In reality, Augustine Chacón may not even have killed the man he was hanged for shooting. Join author David Grassé as he uncovers the true story of Arizona's most enduring criminal legend.

Author : Doug Hocking
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781493071111

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Southwest Train Robberies by Doug Hocking Pdf

In 1854, the United States acquired the roughly 30,000-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico from Mexico as part of the Gadsden Purchase. This new Southern Corridor was ideal for train routes from Texas to California, and soon tracks were laid for the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe rail lines. Shipping goods by train was more efficient, and for desperate outlaws and opportunistic lawmen, robbing trains was high-risk, high-reward. The Southern Corridor was the location of sixteen train robberies between 1883 and 1922. It was also the homebase of cowboy-turned-outlaw Black Jack Ketchum’s High Five Gang. Most of these desperadoes rode the rails to Arizona’s Cochise County on the US-Mexico border where locals and lawmen alike hid them from discovery. Both Wyatt Earp and Texas John Slaughter tried to clean them out, but it took the Arizona Rangers to finish the job. It was a time and place where posses were as likely to get arrested as the bandits. Some of the Rangers and some of Slaughter’s deputies were train robbers. When rewards were offered there were often so many claimants that only the lawyers came out ahead. Southwest Train Robberies chronicles the train heists throughout the region at the turn of the twentieth century, and the robbers who pulled off these train jobs with daring, deceit, and plain dumb luck! Many of these blundering outlaws escaped capture by baffling law enforcement. One outlaw crew had their own caboose, Number 44, and the railroad shipped them back and forth between Tucson and El Paso while they scouted locations. Legend says one gang disappeared into Colossal Cave to split the loot leaving the posse out front while they divided the cash and escaped out another entrance. The antics of these outlaws inspired Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to blow up an express car and to run out guns blazing into the fire of a company of soldiers.

Author : Jan Cleere
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780762783861

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Outlaw Tales of Arizona by Jan Cleere Pdf

True stories of the Grand Canyon state's most infamous robbers, rustlers, and bandits.

Author : Jan Cleere
Publisher : TwoDot
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Crime
ISBN : 0762728140

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Outlaw Tales of Arizona by Jan Cleere Pdf

Tells the stories and legends of the Arizona Territory's most notorious outlaws.

Author : W. C. Jameson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493033379

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Rocky Mountain Train Robberies by W. C. Jameson Pdf

One of the most colorful parts of American History is the time of train robberies and the daring outlaws who undertook them in the period covering from just after the Civil War to 1924. For decades, the railroads were the principal transporters of payrolls, gold and silver, bonds, and passengers who often carried large sums of money as well as valuable jewelry. For the creative outlaw, trains became an obvious target for robbery. The list of America’s train robbers is a veritable Who’s Who of American outlawry and includes: Frank and Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, Charles Searcy, Charles Morganfield, Sam Bass, Black Jack Ketchum, Seaborn Barnes, and others. To this cast of train robbery-related characters can be added the relentless investigations and pursuit by individuals associated with the Pinkerton Detectives, Texas Rangers, Wells Fargo detectives, railroad company detectives, as well as local and area law enforcement authorities. In addition, there are numerous tales of bravery that took place during train robberies involving heroic express car messengers, conductors, engineers, brakemen, and even passengers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Arizona
ISBN : WISC:89081204562

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Copper State Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Leerhsen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501117497

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Butch Cassidy by Charles Leerhsen Pdf

"For a century Butch Cassidy has been the subject of legends about his life and death, spawning a small industry of mythmakers and a major Hollywood film. Charles Leerhsen sorts out fact from fiction to find the real Butch Cassidy, who is far more complicated and fascinating than legend has it"--

Author : David Grassé
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476627359

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The Bisbee Massacre by David Grassé Pdf

 In December 1883, five outlaws attempted to rob the A.A. Castaneda Mercantile establishment in the fledgling mining town of Bisbee in the Arizona Territory. The robbery was a disaster: four citizens shot dead, one a pregnant woman. The failed heist was national news, with the subsequent manhunt, trial and execution of the alleged perpetrators followed by newspapers from New York to San Francisco. The Bisbee Massacre was as momentous as the infamous blood feud between the Earp brothers and the cowboys two years earlier, and led to the only recorded lynching in the town of Tombstone—John Heath, a sporting man, who was thought to be the mastermind. New research indicates he may have been innocent. This comprehensive history takes a fresh look at the event that marked the end of the Wild West period in the Arizona Territory.

Author : Marshall Trimble
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781625855305

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Arizona Outlaws and Lawmen by Marshall Trimble Pdf

True stories of the wild and dangerous world of the Arizona Territory—includes photos. A refuge for outlaws at the close of the 1800s, the Arizona Territory was a wild, lawless land of greedy feuds, brutal killings and figures of enduring legend. These gunfighters included heroes as well as killers, and some were considered both. Bandit Pearl Hart committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies in the country, and James Addison Reavis pulled off the most extraordinary real estate scheme in the West. But with fearless lawmen like C.P. Owens and George Ruffner at hand, swift justice was always nearby. In this collection of true stories, Arizona’s official state historian and celebrated storyteller Marshall Trimble brings to life the rough-and-tumble characters from the Grand Canyon State’s most terrific tales of outlawry and justice.

Author : Jana Bommersbach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1464203024

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Cattle Kate by Jana Bommersbach Pdf

Presents a fictionalized account of the life of Ella Watson, also known as Cattle Kate, and her husband James Averell, who were lynched by vigilantes in 1889 for allegedly stealing cattle.

Author : John Boessenecker
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780369705815

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Wildcat by John Boessenecker Pdf

A True West magazine Best Book of 2021, a nominee for the MPIBA Annual Reading the West Book Award, and a Top Pick in the Annual Southwest Books of the Year by Pima County Public Library “[A] true-life adventure saga about the female outlaw who robbed a stagecoach at gunpoint in Arizona in 1899.” –New York Times Book Review The little-known story of Pearl Hart, the most famous female bandit in the American West. On May 30, 1899, history was made when Pearl Hart, disguised as a man, held up a stagecoach in Arizona and robbed the passengers at gunpoint. A manhunt ensued as word of her heist spread, and Pearl Hart went on to become a media sensation and the most notorious female outlaw on the Western frontier. Her early life, family and fate after her later release from prison have long remained a mystery to scholars and historians—until now. Drawing on groundbreaking research into territorial records and genealogical data, ’s is the first book to uncover the enigma of Pearl Hart. Hailed by many as “The Bandit Queen,” her epic life of crime and legacy as a female trailblazer provide a crucial lens into the lives of the rare women who made their mark in the American West.

Author : John Shirley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781597805681

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Wyatt in Wichita: A Historical Novel by John Shirley Pdf

Author John Shirley turns his pen to the Wild West and the legendary Wyatt Earp! Wyatt in Wichita fuses historical fact with fiction, following the adventures of the young Wyatt Earp. Following the tragic loss of his first wife in the Missouri of 1870 in his early days on the dark side of the West, Wyatt eventually makes his way to Ellsworth and Wichita, where by confronting corruption he would eventually finally find his life's work as a tough lawman. Could Wyatt Earp have known Billy the Kid when the kid was really just that? Could Wyatt have met up with Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood? Using the sparse trails of historical evidence available to him, the lives of the famous and infamous intersect in Shirley's novel, which revolves around Wyatt's search for the murderer of an innocent young woman of Wichita. With Bat Masterson at his side, and bawdy girls about him in the smoky light of crowded saloons, Shirley explores the possible origins of the legendary figure who would forever remain synonymous with the Wild West. Stemming from a true passion and interest in one of the Wild West's most indelible characters, Wyatt in Wichita is a thrilling read and an imagined glimpse into a seldom-seen side of Wyatt Earp and the untamed frontiers of early America.

Author : Bill O'Neal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0890156107

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The Arizona Rangers by Bill O'Neal Pdf

"The Arizona Rangers" is the first documented history of the Rangers ever published, and fills a sizeable void in the annals of Arizona Territory. Bill O'Neal's enthusiasm for his subject and his respect for those remarkable men who wore the five-pointed star are apparent in every word of his thoroughly researched, well written manuscript. He has accurately portrayed the story of the Arizona Rangers against an authentic background of turn-of-the-century Arizona.