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Author:
Johnson, David (David D.), 1950- author.
Title:
The Horrell wars : feuding in Texas and New Mexico / by David Johnson ; foreword by Bill O'Neal.
Edition:
Edition: first.
Publisher:
University of North Texas Press,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
xviii, 249 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Horrell family.
Higgins, Pink,--1848-1914.
Frontier and pioneer life--Texas.
Frontier and pioneer life--New Mexico.
Vendetta--Texas--History--19th century.
Texas--History--1846-1950.
Lampasas County (Tex.)--History--19th century.
New Mexico--History--1848-
Lincoln County (Tex.)--History--19th century.
Violence--Texas--History--19th century.
Violence--New Mexico--History--19th century.
Outlaws--Texas--Biography.
Outlaws--New Mexico--Biography.
Ranchers--Texas--Biography.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
"I raised my boys to be fighters" -- "A lame Texan is suspected of the deed" -- "The Lampasas horror" -- "The ways of the transgressor" -- "Begged for mercy" -- "Nothing was to come of it" -- "Would have surrendered . . . at any time" -- "Didn't fire a shot" -- "The latest blossom of Lampasas chivalry" -- "A shooting picnic at Lampasas" -- "Bloody murder in Bosque" -- "This saturnalia of blood" -- Afterword: "A shocking murder" -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2.
Series:
Number 15 in the A. C. Greene series
ISBN:
1574415603 (ebook)
9781574415605 (ebook)
1574415506 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781574415506 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)872654171
LCCN:
2014004164
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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