Crime, Justice and Retribution in the American West, 1850-1900

Crime, Justice and Retribution in the American West, 1850-1900
Author: Jeremy Agnew
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2017-04-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1476664471

Western movies are full of images of swaggering outlaws brought to justice by valiant lawmen shooting them down in daring gunfights before riding off into the sunset. In reality it would not have happened that way. Real lawmen did not simply walk away from a gunfight--they had to face the legal system and justify shooting a civilian in the line of duty. Providing a more realistic view of criminal justice in the Old West, this history focuses on how criminals came into conflict with the law and how the law responded. The process is described in detail, from the common crimes of the day--such as train robbery and cattle theft--to the methods of apprehending criminals to their adjudication and punishment by incarceration, flogging or hanging.

The vigilantes of Montana; Or, popular justice in the Rocky Mountains

The vigilantes of Montana; Or, popular justice in the Rocky Mountains
Author: Thos. J. Dimsdale
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2022-08-21
Genre: History
ISBN:

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The Djinn's Retribution

The Djinn's Retribution
Author: Michael Saint
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2023-12-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1035804212

In 1936 and at just 17years old, Yusuf Abbas murders two desert travellers for their camels and worldly goods. In 1950 and now calling himself Sheikh Yusuf Abbas, he murders a British Ambassador and the members of a British oil exploration company, shortly afterwards, when a neighbouring Sheikh and his family are poisoned, he merges their lands to create the Sabba Oil empire. On the other side of the world, Richard Neilson, a sickly 14-year-old is devastated when his beloved father (whilst working in Egypt) is decapitated by Arab fanatics. He vows to avenge his death. Two years later, and having thrown himself into a gruelling fitness regime, he enlists in the army and eventually wins selection into the SAS. Najeeb Abbas (Yusuf’s son) is a malevolent, unremorseful psychopath who, upon leaving Cambridge University with a degree in nuclear physics, persuades his father to fund a desert research facility to tackle global warming. But beneath the façade, his intentions are much darker and the consequences of his actions prove fatal for his remorseful father and potentially devastating for the Gulf of Mexica and Canadian Cantrell’s oilfields. Fate throws these two polar opposite lives together, and once again Richard’s family is threatened by Abbas’ deep-rooted intentions to destroy. Will he succeed? Or will Richard finally get the revenge he’s spent most of his life planning? Discover for yourself in this dark, gritty, and electrifying world of Al-Qaeda, terrorist conspiracies, SAS heroes, M16 agents, suicide bombings, assassination plans and desert ops – where revenge stops at nothing.

Retribution Rails

Retribution Rails
Author: Erin Bowman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2017
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0544918886

Ten years after the events of Vengeance Road, Reece Murphy, who has been forced to join the Rose Riders gang, must work with aspiring journalist Charlotte Vaughn to get free.