Memoirs Of A Lawman
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Author | : Cyrus Wells Shores |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 2018-04-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1789121744 |
Gunneson City Sheriff “Doc” Cyrus Wells Shores (1844-1934)—nicknamed after the doctor who delivered him in Hicksville, Detroit in 1844—became well-known as a Colorado lawman for bringing down local criminals without parading his authority or a display of guns. Born in the village of Hicksville, about thirty miles from Detroit, Michigan, “Doc” Shores moved to Montana as a young man via a steamer and paid passage by hunting game along the route. Prospecting and hunting in Montana, he then worked in Wyoming hauling ties for the railroad, and later drove cattle up from Texas. After many experiences with Indians, blizzards, and rustlers in Kansas, Shores took his wife Agnes and settled in Gunnison, Colorado, where he served as the sheriff of Gunnison County when it was still "wild" and became noted as the lawman who captured Alfred Packer, the infamous "Colorado Cannibal." During his lengthy career, “Doc” Shores also served as a deputy U.S. Marshal, a railroad detective, and as chief of police for Salt Lake City, Utah—and he rode with Tom Horn when Horn was still on the right side of the law. First published in 1962 and edited by Wilson Rockwell, Memoirs of a Lawman are “Doc” Shores’ gripping, as previously unpublished memoirs, spanning his life from his early days on the Western frontier, his appointments as Sheriff, and later Federal Marshall.
Author | : Cyrus Wells Shores |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Cattle trade |
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Author | : Wilson Rockwell |
Publisher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2011-10-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781258197759 |
Author | : Wilson Rockwell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781937851057 |
The name Cyrus W. "Doc" Shores may not be found on the list of larger-than-life lawmen whose legends and lore give them top billing in the taming of America's "wild and wooly West;" yet, in the late 1800s, Doc Shores became known to law officers and the lawless alike - eliciting both fear and respect for a man reputed to be one of the best lawmen of that era. In Memoirs of a Lawman, author Wilson Rockwell reconstructs Shores' life and experiences from the lawman's memoirs. He then combines those personal writings with additional research and captures that infamous time when the West was young. This book provides firsthand accounts of outlaw hunting; observations about famous men who Shores knew both inside and outside the law; and descriptive tales about coming west on a "steamer" up the Missouri River to Fort Benton, cattle drives from Texas to Oklahoma, and being a bullwhacker and freighting all over the nation's new frontier. On August 7, 1999, Wilson Rockwell autographed an original copy of Memoirs of a Lawman as follows: "To my friend David Smith with my appreciation for bringing my books back to life for a new generation of readers." With a thank you to and authorization from Wilson Rockwell's son, Daniel, and in memory of Wilson Rockwell, who died in 2007, Western Reflections and its publisher P. David Smith are proud to reprint this timeless work.
Author | : Steven G. Hunt |
Publisher | : Publishamerica Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2009-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781607491248 |
Bill and Dick Kendall are lawmen who patrol the universe instead of the local highways. Their tour of duty has many problems they handle. When they arrive on Gatlinburg home base, the action picks up. They discover a traitorous plot that embroils them in a life-or-death confrontation. Their romantic encounters also increase. After leaving Gatlinburg, they are forced into a climactic battle with enemy forces.
Author | : John Boessenecker |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780806130118 |
Harry Morse - gunfighter, manhunter, sleuth - was among the West's most famous lawmen. Elected sheriff of Alameda County, California, in 1864, he went on to become San Francisco's foremost private detective. His career spanned five decades. In this biography, John Boessenecker brings Morse's now-forgotten story to light, chronicling not only the lawman's remarkable adventures but also the turbulent times in which he lived. Armed only with raw courage and a Colt revolver, Morse squared off against a small army of desperadoes and beat them at their own game. He shot to death the notorious bandidos Narato Ponce and Juan Soto, outgunned the vicious Narciso Bojorques, and pursued the Tiburcio Vasquez gang for two months in one of the West's longest and most tenacious manhunts. Later, Morse captured Black Bart, America's greatest stagecoach robber. Fortunately, Harry Morse loved to tell of his feats. Drawing on Morse's diaries, memoirs, and correspondence, Boessenecker weaves the lawman's colorful accounts into his narrative. Rare photographs of outlaws and lawmen and of the sites of Morse's exploits further enliven the story. A significant contribution to both western history and the history of law enforcement, Lawman is also an in-depth treatment of Hispanic crime and its causes, immigration, racial prejudice, and police brutality - issues with which California, and the nation, still grapple today.
Author | : Shon Hopwood |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 643 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307887839 |
Traces how the author, a Navy veteran, committed five bank robberies and spent years in prison before he rallied with the support of family and friends and learned savvy legal skills, allowing him to build a promising life as a free man.
Author | : Steve G. Hunt |
Publisher | : Publishamerica Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781456099046 |
Author | : Ralph L. Hooker |
Publisher | : Arc Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Peace officers |
ISBN | : 9780938041108 |
Author | : Verdon R. Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Thomas Bruce White, law officer, son of Robert Emmet and Margaret (Campbell) White, was born at Oak Hill, Texas, on March 6, 1881. He attended public schools and, for two years, Southwestern University in Georgetown. He began his career with Company A of the Texas Rangersqv at Colorado City and married Bessie Patterson on October 17, 1909. From 1909 to 1917 he worked as special agent for the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific railroads at Amarillo, San Antonio, and El Paso. While in El Paso he became an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and he was soon promoted and placed in charge of the Houston office. He was one of the first FBI inspectors, with responsibility for inspecting the bureau's offices in all southern and western states. When crimes against Oklahoma's Osage Indians kept increasing, White was moved to Oklahoma City, where he solved the difficult case "of the Osage Indian murders." Afterward, the officials of the United States Bureau of Prisons persuaded him to transfer to that organization. The Whites and their two sons moved into the warden's residence of Leavenworth prison on October 1, 1926. For five years he ran the prison. In 1931 he was seriously wounded by gunfire in an escape attempt. When he recovered, officials of the bureau decided he should be given a less demanding assignment and transferred him to La Tuna Federal Correctional Institution, near El Paso, Texas. This institution was opened under his wardenship on April 29, 1932. White inaugurated programs that made La Tuna very well known, including, for instance, the growing and harvesting of food crops by inmates. On March 6, 1951, when White reached the mandatory civil service retirement age of seventy, he accepted a six-year appointment to the Board of Pardons and Paroles. In tendering the appointment, Chief Justice John E. Hickman said he had never seen better recommendations than those presented on White's behalf. Shortly before his death White stated, "I began by catching criminals and sending them to prison. Then I spent twenty-five years taking care of them while they were serving their time. Finally, I spent the last six years of my career deciding when they should be released. I had come the full circle." White was a devout Baptist. He died in El Paso on December 21, 1971.--Texas State Historical Association.