More Frontier Justice in the Wild West

More Frontier Justice in the Wild West
Title More Frontier Justice in the Wild West PDF eBook
Author R. Michael Wilson
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 195
Release 2014-10-07
Genre History
ISBN 1493015508

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More Frontier Justice in the Wild West; Bungled, Bizarre and Fascinating Executions reveals the details of more than two dozen instances of frontier justice from the era of the Wild West. The events chosen are unique, have some surprising twist, serve as a landmark or benchmark event, or just stand out in the annals of western justice.

Frontier Justice in the Wild West

Frontier Justice in the Wild West
Title Frontier Justice in the Wild West PDF eBook
Author R. Michael Wilson
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 193
Release 2007-06-01
Genre History
ISBN 1461750075

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Frontier Justice highlights eighteen crimes and subsequent punishments of the most interesting, controversial, and unusual executions from an era when hangings and shootings were a legal means of capital punishment. Chapters include: the bungled hanging of Tom Ketchum who was beheaded by the noose; the unique trigger for the trapdoor used to hang Tom Horn; "Big Nose" George Parrott who was skinned, pickled, and made into a pair of shoes; the double trials of Jack McCall, assassin of Wild Bill Hickok; the hanging of a woman-Elizabeth Potts; the shooting of John D. Lee of Mountain Meadows Massacre infamy; and the only use of a double "twitch-up" gallows; etc. Each action-packed chapter includes biographical information, the pursuit, the investigation, legal maneuvers, trial information, and rarely-seen photographs.

Frontier Justice

Frontier Justice
Title Frontier Justice PDF eBook
Author Wayne Gard
Publisher
Pages 376
Release 1949
Genre Americana
ISBN

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Has chapters on range wars, the Johnson County war, troubles between sheep ranchers and cattle ranchers, fence cutting, cattle thieves, horse thieves, road agents, violence against and from Mexican Americans and Indians.

Roaring Camp

Roaring Camp
Title Roaring Camp PDF eBook
Author Susan Lee Johnson
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 468
Release 2000
Genre History
ISBN 9780393320992

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Historical insight is the alchemy that transforms the familiar story of the Gold Rush into something sparkling and new. The world of the Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film--of unshaven men named Stumpy and Kentuck raising hell and panning for gold--is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode. She finds a dynamic social world in which the conventions of identity--ethnic, national, and sexual--were reshaped in surprising ways. She gives us the all-male households of the diggings, the mines where the men worked, and the fandango houses where they played. With a keen eye for character and story, Johnson restores the particular social world that issued in the Gold Rush myths we still cherish.

Lynching Beyond Dixie

Lynching Beyond Dixie
Title Lynching Beyond Dixie PDF eBook
Author Michael J. Pfeifer
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 339
Release 2013-03-16
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0252094654

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In recent decades, scholars have explored much of the history of mob violence in the American South, especially in the years after Reconstruction. However, the lynching violence that occurred in American regions outside the South, where hundreds of persons, including Hispanics, whites, African Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans died at the hands of lynch mobs, has received less attention. This collection of essays by prominent and rising scholars fills this gap by illuminating the factors that distinguished lynching in the West, the Midwest, and the Mid-Atlantic. The volume adds to a more comprehensive history of American lynching and will be of interest to all readers interested in the history of violence across the varied regions of the United States. Contributors are Jack S. Blocker Jr., Brent M. S. Campney, William D. Carrigan, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Dennis B. Downey, Larry R. Gerlach, Kimberley Mangun, Helen McLure, Michael J. Pfeifer, Christopher Waldrep, Clive Webb, and Dena Lynn Winslow.

Famous Sheriffs and Western Outlaws

Famous Sheriffs and Western Outlaws
Title Famous Sheriffs and Western Outlaws PDF eBook
Author William MacLeod Raine
Publisher Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Pages 280
Release 2012-02
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1616085428

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Famous Sheriffs and Western Outlaws is a classic for everyone interested in history and what is was like in the Old West. Get swept back to a time when sheriffs did their best to keep order in a lawless land. Read about the likes of Tom Horn, the "Apache Kid", "Bucky" O'Neill, Tom Nickson, and many more!

Law West of Fort Smith

Law West of Fort Smith
Title Law West of Fort Smith PDF eBook
Author Glenn Shirley
Publisher
Pages 376
Release 1957
Genre Crime
ISBN

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.