The Day Of The Gunfighter
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Author | : Joseph A. West |
Publisher | : Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781597225779 |
Notorious killer, Ed Flynn, saved Marshal Dillon's life once, and now Matt is obliged with Doc Holliday as an unlikely ally to protect him against the Feeney gang.
Author | : Joseph G. Rosa |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780806127613 |
Joseph G. Rosa's vivid and expertly written tale of this violent time combines contemporary accounts with meticulous historical research and an unjaundiced appraisal of the facts. Telling the story of every major gunfighter, peace officer, and outlaw of the West, Rosa places them within the context of a violent frontier and the coming of law and order. Complementing the text are twenty-seven outstanding color spreads featuring firearms from the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum (Los Angeles) and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center (Cody). Many of the spreads contain guns owned and used by such well-known individuals as Pat Garrett, Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickok, John Wesley Hardin, Frank James, and Harvey Logan.
Author | : Bill O'Neal |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780806123356 |
Sifting factual information from among the lies, legends, and tall tales, the lives and battles of gunfighters on both sides of the law are presented in a who's who of the violent West
Author | : Bruce Hultgren |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2019-06-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1796038539 |
Jesse Brothernaster was a living legend in the West as a lawman—cattle rancher, outlaw, gambler, and wanderer through the wildest towns. He was also a miner and tracker. He had blazed a trail of vengeance, giving no quarter or expecting none. Fearlessly he played his cards and used his Colt 45 as best as he could in games of chance, skill, and savagery for stakes of life or death. You will see the troubles early pioneers had and the way they coped with them. You will see how our hero met with legendary people and how he had adventures fighting Indians, bandits, and just bad guys. His main goal was to eliminate a killer of his family. Now he was riding on a course that would test his rawhide nerves and lighting draw against the bad guys. So let’s go!
Author | : Joseph G. Rosa |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2013-07-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0806180420 |
“James Butler Hickok, generally called ‘Wild Bill,’ epitomized the archetypal gunfighter, that half-man, half-myth that became the heir to the mystique of the duelist when that method of resolving differences waned. . . . Easy access to a gun and whiskey coupled with gambling was the cause of most gunfights--few of which bore any resemblance to the gentlemanly duel of earlier times. . . . Hickok’s gunfights were unusual in that most of them were ‘fair’ fights, not just killings resulting from rage, jealousy over a woman, or drunkenness. And, the majority of his encounters were in his role as lawman or as an individual upholding the law.”--from Wild Bill Hickok, Gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok (1837–1876) was a Civil War spy and scout, Indian fighter, gambler, and peace officer. He was also one of the greatest gunfighters in the West. His peers referred to his reflexes as “phenomenal” and to his skill with a pistol as “miraculous.” In Wild Bill Hickok, Gunfighter, Joseph G. Rosa, the world’s foremost authority on Hickok, provides an informative examination of Hickok’s many gunfights. Rosa describes the types of guns used by Hickok and illustrates his use of the plains’ style of “quick draw,” as well as examining other elements of the Hickok legend. He even reconsiders the infamous “dead man’s hand” allegedly held by Hickok when he was shot to death at age thirty-nine while playing poker. Numerous photographs and drawings accompany Rosa’s down-to-earth text.
Author | : Joseph G. Rosa |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1979-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780806115610 |
Introduces some of the gunfighting legends of the West, both criminals and law officials, and attempts to explore the realism of accounts of their feats
Author | : Dan Rottenberg |
Publisher | : Westholme Pub Llc |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781594161124 |
In the lead up to the Civil War, Joseph Alfred "Jack" Slade kept the stagecoaches and the U.S. Mail running through Colorado, and helped launch the Pony Express, all of which kept California and its gold in the Union. With his reputation as a gunfighter, across the Great Plains he became known as "The Law West of Kearny." Since Slade's death in 1864, persistent myths and stories have defied the efforts of writers and historians, including Mark Twain, to capture the real Jack Slade. Despite his notoriety, the pieces of Slade's fascinating life—including his marriage to the beautiful Maria Virginia—have remained scattered and hidden. In Death of a Gunfighter: The Quest for Jack Slade, the West's Most Elusive Legend, journalist Dan Rottenberg assembles years of research to reveal the true story of Jack Slade, one of America's greatest tragic heroes.
Author | : Al Cimino |
Publisher | : Chartwell Books |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2016-08-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0785833765 |
Delve into the world of the Wild West and the gunslingers that populated its dusty towns and saloons.
Author | : William Dale Jennings |
Publisher | : In the Hands of a Child |
Total Pages | : 46 |
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Genre | : Cowboys |
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Author | : Ralph Compton |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1996-12-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101127279 |
A gunslinger goes up against his own kin in this western from USA Today bestselling author Ralph Compton. Nathan Stone is a living legend in the West as a lawman, an outlaw, a gambler, and a wanderer through the wildest towns and terrain. He has blazed a vengeance trail, giving no quarter and asking for none. Fearlessly, he plays his cards and uses his Colt .45s as best he can in games of chance, skill, and savagery, for stakes of life or death. Now he’s riding on a course that will test his rawhide nerves and lightning draw against the likes of Doc Holliday, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, the fleeing James brothers, and the incredible John Wesley Hardin as he heads toward a fateful rendezvous with the one gunfighter as fast and deadly as he: a teenage kid who kills like a man—Nathan’s own son... More Than Six Million Ralph Compton Books In Print!