Author: Bob Alexander
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780944383728
Category : Southwest, New
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Presents portraits of sixteen notable gunmen of the Southwest, most of them largely unknown.

Author: Delores Fossen
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460315820
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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In Maverick County, he was the law When Caitlyn Barnes unexpectedly shows up at his ranch, Texas marshal Harlan McKinney has no idea his ex-lover is trailing a heaping pile of danger. The death threats against the investigative journalist are just the tip of the iceberg. Soon Caitlyn and Harlan are on the run out of Maverick County. Enmeshed in a web of escalating violence, they know their only hope of surviving is to trust each other. But Harlan doesn't know if he can trust himself—and the feelings Caitlyn is awakening. With the noose tightening, tracked by a killer who's always one step ahead, Harlan is blindsided by an explosive secret from the past—and a passion that's even more dangerous.…

Author: Bob Alexander
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 157441268X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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Winchester Warriors: Texas Rangers of Company Dm, 1874-1901 is Number 6 in the Frances B. Vick Series.

Author: Ed. Lyon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
ISBN: 0761357122
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Sitting tall in the saddle, with a wide-brimmed black hat and twin Colt pistols on his belt, Bass Reeves seemed bigger than life. Outlaws feared him. Law-abiding citizens respected him. As a peace officer, he was cunning and fearless. When a lawbreaker he

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americana
Languages : en
Pages : 45

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Author: Leon Claire Metz
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 143813021X
Category : Criminology
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Standoffs, saloons, and sunsets spring to mind when one envisions the rough and tumble early days of the American frontier.

Author: Clifford R. Caldwell
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625840772
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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Lawlessness in Texas did not end with the close of the cowboy era. It just evolved, swapping horses and pistols for cars and semiautomatics. From Patrolman "Newt" Stewart, killed by a group of servicemen in February 1900, to Whitesboro chief of police William Thomas "Will" Miller, run down by a vehicle in the line of duty in 1940, Ron DeLord and Cliff Caldwell present a comprehensive chronicle of the brave--and some not so brave--peace officers who laid down their lives in the service of the State of Texas in the first half of the twentieth century.

Author: Lee Davis Willoughby
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780440047438
Category : Western stories
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Author: James L. Coffey
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574416677
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Graham Barnett was killed in Rankin, Texas, on December 6, 1931. His death brought an end to a storied career, but not an end to the legends that claimed he was a gunman, a hired pistolero on both sides of the border, a Texas Ranger known for questionable shootings in Company B under Captain Fox, a deputy sheriff, a bootlegger, and a possible “fixer” for both law enforcement and outlaw organizations. In real life he was a good cowboy, who provided for his family the best way he could, and who did so by slipping seamlessly between the law enforcement community and the world of illegal liquor traffickers. Stories say he killed unnumbered men on the border, but he stood trial only twice and was acquitted both times. Barnett lived in the twentieth century but carried with him many of the attitudes of old frontier Texas. Among those beliefs was that if there were problems, a man dealt with them directly and forcefully—with a gun. His penchant to settle a score with gunplay brought him into confrontation with Sheriff W. C. Fowler, a former friend, who shot Barnett with the latter’s own submachine gun on loan. One contemporary summed it up best: “Officers in West Texas got the best sleep they had had in twenty years that Sunday night after Fowler killed Graham.”