Author: Karen Holliday TannerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
New Mexico Territorial Penitentiary (1884-1912) Directory of Inmates
Author: Karen Holliday TannerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Cipriano Baca, Frontier Lawman of New Mexico
Author: Chuck HornungPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786473320
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This is the first biography of the legendary officer Cipriano Baca, scion of a prestigious Spanish lineage tracing their heritage to the first settlers in Nuevo Mexico. Baca was well educated and a successful businessman before beginning a 52-year career as a peace officer. Tenderhearted by nature, he could be cold as steel, even lethal, doing his duty. He was a man of honor and principle in an age of greed and selfishness. Baca was first an undercover range detective, next a deputy sheriff and a deputy U.S. marshal. In 1901, the territorial governor appointed him the first sheriff of the newly formed Luna County, and in 1905, the territorial governor selected him as the first man to become the lieutenant of New Mexico's newly established territorial rangers. Written with the full cooperation of the Baca family and utilizing public and private records, this biography presents the truth about a complicated man. One revelation: Baca discovered who was the real killer of Pat Garrett and the motive behind the murder of the man who killed Billy the Kid.
Hell Holes and Hangings
Author: Fred HarrisonPublisher: Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
"The Territorial prisons and penitentiaries were meant to be just a little tougher than the meanest outlaw the devil ever made -- and they were. This is the story of a selected few of these prisons, and of the taut, life-and-death dramas often played out within the shadows of their brooding walls. In some ways, it is a story of shame, of sadistic guards, corupt officials and a justice which was often impulsive and vengeful. But it is also a story of magnificence in the massive battle between right and wrong during America's most lawless period." -- p. VIII.
A History of New Mexico
Author: Charles Florus CoanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
The New International Encyclopaedia
Author: Daniel Coit GilmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
The Great American Outlaw
Author: Frank Richard PrasselPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806128429
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This book explores in depth the origins, development, and prospects of outlawry and of the relationship of outlaws to the social conditions of changing times. Throughout American history you will find larger-than-life brigands in every period and every region. Often, because we hunger for simple justice, we romanticize them to the point of being unable to separate fact from fiction. Frank Richard Prassel brings this home in a thorough and fascinating examination of the concept of outlawry from Robin Hood, Dick Turpin, and Blackbeard through Jean Lafitte, Pancho Villa, and Billy the Kid to more modern personalities such as John Dillinger, Claude Dallas, and D. B. Cooper. A separate chapter on molls, plus equal treatment in the histories of gangs, traces women's involvement in outlaw activities. Prassel covers the folklore as well as the facts, even including an appendix of ballads by and about outlaws. He makes clear how this motley group of bandits, pirates, highwaymen, desperadoes, rebels, hoodlums, renegades, gangsters, and fugitives—who stand tall in myth—wither in the light of truth, but flourish in the movies. As he tells the stories, there is little to confirm that Jesse and Frank James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Daltons, Pretty Boy Floyd, Ma Barker, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, Belle Starr, the Apache Kid, or any of the so-called good badmen, did anything that did not enrich or otherwise benefit themselves. But there is plenty of evidence, in the form of slain victims and ruined lives, to show how many ways they caused harm. The Great American Outlaw is as much an excellent survey on the phenomenon as it is a brilliant exposition of the larger than-life figures who created it. Above all, it is a tribute to that aspect of humanity that Americans admire most and that Prassel describes as a willingness "to fight, however hopelessly, against exhibitions of privilege."
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
The Federal Courts of the Tenth Circuit
Author: James K. LoganThe New International Encyclopædia
Author: Daniel Coit GilmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1210
Book Description