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Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9781928656128 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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A century ago, disputes in Colorado were often settled with a six-shooter or a rifle. Often the judicial system was weak or unorganized. Some criminals got away. In these 31 true stories of frontier Colorado gunfights, the reader will sense the state¿s struggle to emerge from bouts of violence into a civilized society. Author Kenneth Jessen includes some of the West¿s most notorious characters such as Doc Holliday, gunfighter Clay Allison, ruthless Bob Meldrum and Bob Ford, the man who killed Jesse James.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9781928656128 Category : Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
A century ago, disputes in Colorado were often settled with a six-shooter or a rifle. Often the judicial system was weak or unorganized. Some criminals got away. In these 31 true stories of frontier Colorado gunfights, the reader will sense the state¿s struggle to emerge from bouts of violence into a civilized society. Author Kenneth Jessen includes some of the West¿s most notorious characters such as Doc Holliday, gunfighter Clay Allison, ruthless Bob Meldrum and Bob Ford, the man who killed Jesse James.
Author: Roger D. McGrath Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520060265 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 314
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From the Preface:On the frontier, says conventional wisdom, a structured society did not exist and social control was largely absent; law enforcement and the criminal justice system had limited, if any, influence; and danger--both from man and from the elements--was ever present. This view of the frontier is projected by motion pictures, television, popular literature, and most scholarly histories. But was the frontier really all that violent? What was the nature of the violence that did occur? Were frontier towns more violent that cities in the East? Has America inherited a violent way of life from the frontier? Was the frontier more violent than the United States is today? This book attempts to answer these questions and others about violence and lawlessness on the frontier and do so in a new way. Whereas most authors have drawn their conclusions about frontier violence from the exploits of a few notorious badmen and outlaws and from some of the more famous incidents and conflicts, I have chosen to focus on two towns that I think were typical of the frontier--the mining frontier specifically--and to investigate all forms of violence and lawlessness that occurred in and around those towns.
Author: Tom Clavin Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 1250174015 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 335
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The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City. In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO—the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus began the reputation that made him a marked man to every gunslinger in the Wild West. James Butler Hickock was known across the frontier as a soldier, Union spy, scout, lawman, gunfighter, gambler, showman, and actor. He crossed paths with General Custer and Buffalo Bill Cody, as well as Ben Thompson and other young toughs gunning for the sheriff with the quickest draw west of the Mississippi. Wild Bill also fell in love—multiple times—before marrying the true love of his life, Agnes Lake, the impresario of a traveling circus. He would be buried however, next to fabled frontierswoman Calamity Jane. Even before his death, Wild Bill became a legend, with fiction sometimes supplanting fact in the stories that surfaced. Once, in a bar in Nebraska, he was confronted by four men, three of whom he killed in the ensuing gunfight. A famous Harper’s Magazine article credited Hickok with slaying 10 men that day; by the 1870s, his career-long kill count was up to 100. The legend of Wild Bill has only grown since his death in 1876, when cowardly Jack McCall famously put a bullet through the back of his head during a card game. Bestselling author Tom Clavin has sifted through years of western lore to bring Hickock fully to life in this rip-roaring, spellbinding true story.
Author: Rod Miller Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1493015206 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 257
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This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West goes beyond the tales everyone knows of the OK Corral and the Dead Man’s Hand to focus on the gunfights, massacres, and daring deeds that are the stars of local historians but not featured in general histories of the old west. These events, while less well known, offer new territory for the Wild West buff to explore. Each chapter in this book tells a story that deserves to be remembered—either because of its importance, its intrigue, or just because it’s interesting. From cowboys and Indians to explorers and electricity to warfare and gunfights to royalty and rogues, the stories here cover a frontier West your education may have missed.
Author: Jeff Guinn Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1439154252 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 416
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A revisionist history of the Old West battle challenges popular depictions of such figures as the Earps and Doc Holliday, tracing the influence of a love triangle, renegade Apaches, and the citizens of Tombstone.
Author: James Reasoner Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1440673020 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 324
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Known for his ability to make history come vividly to life, Reasoner strips away the dime novel legends and Hollywood myths to show us how the gunfighters of the Old West really lived, killed, and were killed. Praised for his “well-researched” (Booklist) and “lively, suspenseful” (Publishers Weekly) novels, James Reasoner now proves that truth can be even more exciting than fiction. Among the true stories he brings us: • Doc Holliday’s Last Gunfight • The Last Bloody Ride of the Dalton Gang • The End of the Notorious John Wesley Hardin • Wild Bill’s Tragic Mistake • The End of an Earp • Turkey Creek Canyon Shoot-out • Gunfight at Stone Corral • The Doolin Bunch vs. the U.S. Marshals • Rourke’s Bad Luck Robbery • Shoot-out at the Tuttle Dance Hall • Wichita’s New Year’s Day Gunfight • Bat Masterson and the Battle of the Plaza • The Sam Bass Gang’s Luck Runs Out • The Long Branch Saloon’s Spectacular Fray • Ben Thompson’s Christmas Day Shooting • The Man Who Killed the Man Who Killed Jesse James • and more! These are the shoot-outs and showdowns that gave the Wild West its name, recounted here with gritty accuracy, colorful detail, and all the drama of life—and death—on the frontier.
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Author: Kenneth Jessen
Author: Kenneth Christian Jessen
Author: Roger D. McGrath
Author: Tom Clavin
Author: Rod Miller
Author: Jeff Guinn
Author: James Reasoner
Author: Bat Masterson
Author: Paula Mitchell Marks