Author: John Marvin HunterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Album of Gunfighters
Author: John Marvin HunterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Biographical Album of Western Gunfighters
Author: Ed Ellsworth BartholomewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Contains more than 1,000 alphabetically arranged entries of the most famous sheriffs, outlaws, marshals, and celebrated personalities in the history of the western frontier, with over 600 photographs.
John Wesley Hardin
Author: Leon Claire MetzPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806129952
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Thus spoke one lawman about John Wesley Hardin, easily the most feared and fearless of all the gunfighters in the West. Nobody knows the exact number of his victims-perhaps as few as twenty or as many as fifty. In his way of thinking, Hardin never shot a man who did not deserve it. Seeking to gain insight into Hardin’s homicidal mind, Leon Metz describes how Hardin’s bloody career began in post-Civil War Central Texas, when lawlessness and killings were commonplace, and traces his life of violence until his capture and imprisonment in 1878. After numerous unsuccessful escape attempts, Hardin settled down and received a pardon years later in 1895. He wrote an autobiography but did not live to see it published. Within a few months of his release, John Selman gunned him down in an El Paso saloon.
The Album of Gunfighters
Author: John Marvin HunterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Outlaws
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This album contains photographs and short biographies of many gun-fighters connected in one way or another with the growth of the legend of Billy the Kid, John Selman, Pat Garrett, and many others.
Jim Courtright of Fort Worth
Author: Robert K. DeArmentPublisher: TCU Press
ISBN: 9780875652924
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Timothy Isaiah "Longhair Jim" Courtright operated on both sides of the law and became a legend in his lifetime and after his death. One of the most colorful characters from the wild and woolly days of Fort Worth's Hell's Half Acre, Courtright was at various times city marshal, deputy sheriff, deputy U.S. marshal, private detective, hired killer, and racketeer. Today, he is almost forgotten, either as a gunfighter or a lawman, except in Fort Worth. Little is known about Courtright's early life, though he apparently served in the Union army during the Civil War. But when he arrived in the West, Courtright seemed to attract trouble. He was involved in a shootout during the 1886 railroad strikes and was accused of murder in New Mexico. Deputies were sent to Fort Worth to escort him to New Mexico to stand trial. His escape from them, complete with guns hidden under a restaurant table, is one of Fort Worth's most colorful stories. Finally, he was killed in a shootout that he apparently provoked with gambler and gunman Luke Short. To this day nobody is sure what provoked that feud, but Courtright was honored with the longest funeral procession Fort Worth had ever seen. The myth of Courtright as legendary gunfighter was built in two previous biographies--one by a novelist and the other by a Franciscan priest. After exhaustive research into contemporary newspapers and other accounts and close study of the previous two books, historian Robert K. DeArment deconstructs the myth of Longhair Jim and reconstructs the gunfighter as a real human being, complex, flawed, often courageous, usually both honorable and dishonorable. This book is a must for all those interested in the legends of the West, its lawmen, and its outlaws.
Deadly Dozen
Author: Robert K. DeArmentPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806182652
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Think gunfighter, and Wyatt Earp or Billy the Kid may come to mind, but what of Jim Moon? Joel Fowler? Zack Light? A host of other figures helped forge the gunfighter persona, but their stories have been lost to time. In a sequel to his Deadly Dozen, celebrated western historian Robert K. DeArment now offers more biographical portraits of lesser-known gunfighters—men who perhaps weren’t glorified in legend or song, but who were rightfully notorious in their day. DeArment has tracked down stories of gunmen from throughout the West—characters you won’t find in any of today’s western history encyclopedias but whose careers are colorfully described here. Photos of the men and telling quotations from primary sources make these characters come alive. In giving these men their due, DeArment takes readers back to the gunfighter culture spawned in part by the upheavals of the Civil War, to a time when deadly duels were part of the social fabric of frontier towns and the Code of the West was real. His vignettes offer telling insights into conditions on the frontier that created the gunfighters of legend. These overlooked shooters never won national headlines but made their own contributions to the blood and thunder of the Old West: people less than legends, but all the more fascinating because they were real. Readers who enjoyed DeArment’s Deadly Dozen will find this book equally captivating—as gripping as a showdown, twelve times over.
Bloody Bill Longley
Author: Rick MillerPublisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574413058
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
William Preston Longley (1851-1878) went on a murderous rampage over the last few years of his life. Once he was arrested in 1877, and subsequently sentenced to hang, his name became known statewide as an outlaw and a murderer. Longley created and reveled in his self-centered image as a fearsome, deadly gunfighter. In truth, Longley was not the daring figure that he attempted to paint.
The Gunfighters (Reprint Edition)
Author: Lea F. McCartyPublisher: Coachwhip Publications
ISBN: 9781616462789
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Western artist Lea McCarty's art shines in The Gunfighters, as he illustrates biographical sketches of twenty gun-slinging characters from the Old West with full-color portraits that capture each one perfectly. Readers will be familiar with Wild Bill Hickock, Wyatt Earp, and Jesse James, but will also find lesser-known gunfighters like John Ringo and King Fisher. Marshals, deputies, and outlaws, they are a part of American history that still resonates today. The Gunfighters was first published in 1959.
Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters
Author: Bill O'NealPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806123356
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
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
Western Gunslingers in Fact and on Film
Author: Buck RaineyPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476603286
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Hickok, Belle Starr, Wyatt Earp, the Younger Gang, the Dalton-Doolin Gang and Bat Masterson--these real-life lawmen and lawbreakers have been the basis of so many Hollywood Westerns that it has become difficult to discover where the truth ends and the legend begins. All actually became larger-than-life characters during their lifetimes, as contemporary newspapers and books embellished their deeds for their own purposes. But it was in Hollywood that the line between reality and myth was completely blurred. Each chapter-length entry here first focuses on the known facts of the people's lives and how each became truly legendary during their lifetimes. The reality is then compared to how they have been portrayed in the movies.