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Author:

Alexander, Bob, 1943- author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2001067908

Title:

Bad company and burnt powder : justice and injustice in the Old Southwest / Bob Alexander.

Publisher:

University of North Texas Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xxiii, 456 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Law enforcement--Texas--History.
Texas Rangers--History.
Southwestern States--History--19th century.
Southwestern States--History--20th century.
Crime--Southwestern States--History--19th century.
Crime--Southwestern States--History--20th century.
Law enforcement--Southwestern States--History--19th century.
Law enforcement--Southwestern States--History--20th century.
Frontier and pioneer life--Southwestern States.
Crime.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Law enforcement.
United States--Southwestern States.
1800 - 1999
History.

Notes:

Chiefly on Texas. Includes bibliographical references (pages 422-439) and index.

Contents:

Bullets at Bullhead Mountain -- A modern Hercules to the rescue -- Murders and madness at Millican -- Shooting him with pistols and guns -- Has a wolfish look, Is bold to recklessness -- Son, don't take your guns to town -- The plum was ripening fast -- Six-shooters, sermons and sour mash -- I'm shot all to pieces, everything quiet -- Most feared gangster of the time -- Good man, bad boy, big gun -- Distractions of frontier life.

Summary:

This book is a portrait of twelve lawmen or criminals or of famous events in the American Southwest in the late 1800s to the early 1900s. The events take place in Arizona Territory, Texas, or New Mexico Territory.--Adapted from the ECIP Data View Summary.

Series:

Number 13 in the Frances B. Vick series

ISBN:

1574415808
9781574415803
1574415662
9781574415667

OCLC:

(OCoLC)879329614

LCCN:

2014015280

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)