Lawmen, Outlaws, and S.O.B's
Author | : Bob Alexander |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Southwest, New |
ISBN | : 9780944383728 |
Presents portraits of sixteen notable gunmen of the Southwest, most of them largely unknown.
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Author | : Bob Alexander |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Southwest, New |
ISBN | : 9780944383728 |
Presents portraits of sixteen notable gunmen of the Southwest, most of them largely unknown.
Author | : Bob Alexander |
Publisher | : University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 157441268X |
Winchester Warriors: Texas Rangers of Company Dm, 1874-1901 is Number 6 in the Frances B. Vick Series.
Author | : Clifford R. Caldwell |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 2012-09-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1625840772 |
Lawlessness in Texas did not end with the close of the cowboy era. It just evolved, swapping horses and pistols for cars and semiautomatics. From Patrolman "Newt" Stewart, killed by a group of servicemen in February 1900, to Whitesboro chief of police William Thomas "Will" Miller, run down by a vehicle in the line of duty in 1940, Ron DeLord and Cliff Caldwell present a comprehensive chronicle of the brave--and some not so brave--peace officers who laid down their lives in the service of the State of Texas in the first half of the twentieth century.
Author | : Leon Claire Metz |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Criminology |
ISBN | : 143813021X |
Standoffs, saloons, and sunsets spring to mind when one envisions the rough and tumble early days of the American frontier.
Author | : Vaunda Micheaux Nelson |
Publisher | : Carolrhoda Books |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2009-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0761357122 |
Sitting tall in the saddle, with a wide-brimmed black hat and twin Colt pistols on his belt, Bass Reeves seemed bigger than life. Outlaws feared him. Law-abiding citizens respected him. As a peace officer, he was cunning and fearless. When a lawbreaker he
Author | : Laurence Yadon |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2008-02-29 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 9781455600052 |
A lively reference covering a century’s worth of shooters, sheriffs, and more in the Lone Star State. The Lone Star State is known for producing both vicious outlaws and valorous lawmen. While Machine Gun Kelly terrorized urban civilians, lawmen such as Ranger John Barclay Armstrong tried to keep things under control. This is the story of Texas’s most famous criminals, intrepid lawmen—and in the case of James Edwin Reed, both—as well as such figures as the legendary Judge Roy Bean. This reference brings to life a time before the West was tamed, and also includes a chronology of well-known crimes and a locale list of notorious events.
Author | : Lee Davis Willoughby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Western stories |
ISBN | : 9780440047438 |
Author | : Dan Anderson |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2012-11-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781455612826 |
A lighthearted history of ten of Texas’s most notorious outlaws, including Clyde Barrow and a bank robber dressed as Santa Claus. The Wild Westerners were a tough breed. They started young and tended to die young, grow wilder, or fizzle into oblivion. Those outlaws that had the most feuds, gunfights, and robberies within the state lines are profiled here along with their associates, enemies, and accomplices. A rough chronological order of events spanning from pre-Civil War to 1935 tracks significant people and events. With so few lawmen available to police the state, troublesome youths quickly developed into heinous individuals. John Wesley Hardin killed a fellow classmate in a one-room schoolhouse, and eight-year-old James Miller was arrested for murdering his own grandparents. Beginnings and endings for each individual varied. While Sam Bass and Bonnie Parker were cut down in their twenties, Dock Newton didn’t rob his last train until age seventy-seven. Other members of the Barrow Gang lived into their fifties and sixties after transforming themselves from dangerous criminals to ordinary citizens. Texans are often described as being larger than life. Their lives were legendary, their demeanor solid, their illegal activities dramatic and varied from beginning to end. The same lighthearted take on Western history that permeated Dan Anderson and Laurence J. Yadon’s previous works resonates in their latest popular history. True stories, tall tales, and numerous anecdotes comprise this book of ten of the deadliest outlaws to cross the Texas line. Praise for Ten Deadly Texans “Picking the top ten of virtually anything is difficult if not impossible, but [Yadon and Anderson] have presented a strong argument that this grouping belongs at the top of any list of deadly fighters. In their own way, each one chose a deadly path filled with violence, bloodshed, high drama, and excitement.” —Chuck Parsons, author of John B. Armstrong: Texas Ranger and Pioneer Ranchman “A well-researched and highly readable account of the Lone Star State's meanest men and women.” —Mike Cox, author of The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821–1900 “Yadon and Anderson have done their homework to separate the truth from the legend, because not only are they good historians, they know that the real story is quite often better than the legend. Ten Deadly Texans takes you from the Civil War to the Great Depression, from cow ponies and six-guns to Ford V-8s and automatic weapons, through the real lives of some of Texas’s most notorious sons.” —James R. Knight, author of Bonnie and Clyde: A Twenty-First-Century Update