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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
A Directory of New Mexico Desperados
New Mexico Territorial Penitentiary (1884-1912) Directory of Inmates
Author: Karen Holliday TannerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Lawmen, Outlaws, and Gunfighters
Author: Leon Claire MetzPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 143813021X
Category : Criminology
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Standoffs, saloons, and sunsets spring to mind when one envisions the rough and tumble early days of the American frontier.
Outlaws & Desperados
Author: Ann LacyPublisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 086534633X
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Between 1936 and 1940, field workers in the Federal Writers' Project collected many accounts that provide an authentic and vivid picture of the early days of New Mexico. This volume focuses on outlaws and desperados.
Desperados of New Mexico
Author: F. StanleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781632930781
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Originally published: Denver, Colorado: World Press, 1953, with title Desperadoes of New Mexico.
Borders of Violence and Justice
Author: Brian D. BehnkenPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469670135
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Brian Behnken offers a sweeping examination of the interactions between Mexican-origin people and law enforcement—both legally codified police agencies and extralegal justice—across the U.S. Southwest (especially Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas) from the 1830s to the 1930s. Representing a broad, colonial regime, police agencies and extralegal groups policed and controlled Mexican-origin people to maintain state and racial power in the region, treating Mexicans and Mexican Americans as a "foreign" population that they deemed suspect and undesirable. White Americans justified these perceptions and the acts of violence that they spawned with racist assumptions about the criminality of Mexican-origin people, but Behnken details the many ways Mexicans and Mexican Americans responded to violence, including the formation of self-defense groups and advocacy organizations. Others became police officers, vowing to protect Mexican-origin people from within the ranks of law enforcement. Mexican Americans also pushed state and territorial governments to professionalize law enforcement to halt abuse. The long history of the border region between the United States and Mexico has been one marked by periodic violence, but Behnken shows us in unsparing detail how Mexicans and Mexican Americans refused to stand idly by in the face of relentless assault.
A Selective Bibliography of New Mexico History
Author: Jon HunnerPublisher:
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Category : New Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Publishers' Trade List Annual
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 3256
Book Description
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