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Author: H. B. Broome Publisher: Doubleday Books ISBN: 9780385235167 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 196
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After killing his twenty-seventh man, Tom English, known to his enemies as "the meanest man in West Texas," faces the realization that he is doomed to go from one gunfight to another until one day he will be the one to die.
Author: H. B. Broome Publisher: Doubleday Books ISBN: 9780385235167 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 196
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After killing his twenty-seventh man, Tom English, known to his enemies as "the meanest man in West Texas," faces the realization that he is doomed to go from one gunfight to another until one day he will be the one to die.
Author: Richard F. Selcer Publisher: Texas A&M University Press ISBN: 0875655114 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 359
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Texas is a place where legends are made, die, and are revived. Fort Worth, Texas, claims its own legend – Hell’s Half Acre – a wild ’n woolly accumulation of bordellos, cribs, dance houses, saloons, and gambling parlors. Tenderloin districts were a fact of life in every major town in the American West, but Hell’s Half Acre – its myth and its reality – can be said to be a microcosm of them all. The most famous and infamous westerners visited the Acre: Timothy (“Longhair Jim”) Courtright, Luke Short, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Sam Bass, Mary Porter, Etta Place, along with Butch Cassidy and his Wild Bunch, and many more. For civic leaders and reformers, the Acre presented a dilemma – the very establishments they sought to close down or regulate were major contributors to the local economy. Controversial in its heyday and receiving new attention by such movies as Lonesome Dove, Hell’s Half Acre remains the subject of debate among historians and researchers today. Richard Selcer successfully separates fact from fiction, myth from reality, in this vibrant study of the men and women of Cowtown’s notorious Acre.
Author: Paul M. Barrett Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0307719952 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 322
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The Glock pistol is America’s Gun. It has been rhapsodized by hip-hop artists and coveted by cops and crooks alike. Created in 1982 by Gaston Glock, the pistol arrived in America at a fortuitous time. Law enforcement agencies had concluded that their agents and officers, armed with standard six-round revolvers, were getting "outgunned" by drug dealers with semi-automatic pistols; they needed a new gun. With its lightweight plastic frame and large-capacity spring-action magazine, the Glock was the gun of the future. You could drop it underwater, toss it from a helicopter, or leave it out in the snow, and it would still fire. It was reliable, accurate, lightweight, and cheaper to produce than Smith and Wesson’s revolver. Filled with corporate intrigue, political maneuvering, Hollywood glitz, bloody shoot-outs—and an attempt on Gaston Glock’s life by a former lieutenant—Glock is not only the inside account of how Glock the company went about marketing its pistol to police agencies and later the public, but also a compelling chronicle of the evolution of gun culture in America.
Author: Richard Slotkin Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 9780806130316 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 868
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Examines the ways in which the frontier myth influences American culture and politics, drawing on fiction, western films, and political writing
Author: Roger D. McGrath Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520341732 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 304
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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: Gordon A. Hunsaker Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1450207227 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 345
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Amid the backdrop of World War II, race riots, and police corruption, a white police officer in Phoenix, Arizona, guns down an on-duty, black cop from his same department. The communitys residents pick sides, and while the second trial ends in an acquittal, the battle isnt over. The detective, Frenchy Navarre, returns to duty but is shot dead when he encounters Officer Joe Davis, the slain officers partner. This is just one of the fascinating tales told by Gordon A. Hunsaker, who also recalls: Surviving his youth on the streets of Los Angeles Fighting in the jungles of Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War A series of stories that cops normally only tell each other Piloting helicopters and airplanes while on the job Battling his toughest opponent cancer And much more! This compilation of musings, observations, and police lore is insightful, thought- provoking and, at times, just darn spooky. Any Arizona resident, law enforcement officer or lover of history will be thrilled to enter the exciting world of Gunfights & Gunfighters.
Author: Henryk Hoffmann Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476608652 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 214
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Westerns may have had their heyday, but they remain popular. The greatest films from 1914, when The Squaw Man and The Virginian were among the genre's best, through 2001, when American Outlaws and Texas Rangers were tops, are the subject of this work. For each year, the author names the outstanding western films in the following categories: picture, screenplay (original and adaptation), direction, cinematography, music, male and female leading roles, and male and female supporting roles. Also for each year, the author lists the westerns that received Academy Award nominations (and those that won), makes note of the births and deaths of notable actors, directors, producers, composers, cinematographers, authors and other such personalities, and describes the genre's significant achievements.
Author: Bill O'Neal Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 9780806123356 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 404
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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: H. B. Broome
Author: H. B. Broome
Author: Richard F. Selcer
Author: Leon Claire Metz
Author: Lee Davis Willoughby
Author: Paul M. Barrett
Author: Richard Slotkin
Author: Roger D. McGrath
Author: Gordon A. Hunsaker
Author: Henryk Hoffmann
Author: Bill O'Neal