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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Stalkin' Kin in Old West Texas
Author: Stalkin' Kin in Old West Texas
Author: Stalkin' Kin
Author: Family Puzzlers
Author: The Moores
Author: Javier Leandro Maffucci MoorePublisher: Editorial Autores de Argentina
ISBN: 9878735001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
Three centuries of a family history that incite, more than to bask in the display of an absent aristocratic ancestry, to explore the details of a trajectory that begins in the British colonial world of north America, to anchor in the late 19th century in the wild frontier of the northeast of Santa Fe, Argentina. A panorama where the lights and shadows of lives that have left a deep mark are integrated.
Old Northwest Texas: Navarro County, 1846-1860. 2 v
Author: Nancy Timmons SamuelsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Man-Hunters of the Old West
Author: Robert K. DeArmentPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806158093
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Settlers in the frontier West were often easy prey for criminals. Policing efforts were scattered at best and often amounted to vigilante retaliation. To create a semblance of order, freelance enforcers of the law known as man-hunters undertook the search for fugitives. These pursuers have often been portrayed as ruthless bounty hunters, no better than the felons they pursued. Robert K. DeArment’s detailed account of their careers redeems their reputations and reveals the truth behind their fascinating legends. As DeArment shows, man-hunters were far more likely to capture felons alive than their popular image suggests. Although “Wanted: Dead or Alive” reward notices were posted during this period, they were reserved for the most murderous desperadoes. Man-hunters also came from a variety of backgrounds in the East and the West: of the eight men whose stories DeArment tells, one began as an officer for an express company, and another was the head of an organization of local lawmen. Others included a railroad detective, a Texas Ranger, a Pinkerton operative, and a shotgun messenger for a stagecoach line. All were tough survivors, living through gunshot wounds, snakebites, disease, buffalo stampedes, and every other hazard of life in the Wild West. They also crossed paths with famous criminals and sheriffs, from John Wesley Hardin and Sam Bass to Wyatt Earp, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid. Telling the true stories of famous men who risked their lives to bring western outlaws to justice, Man-Hunters of the Old West dispels long-held myths of their cold-blooded vigilantism and brings fresh nuance to the lives and legends that made the West wild.
The Genealogical Helper
Author: The Passing of the Frontier: A Chronicle of the Old West
Author: Emerson HoughPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
The Passing of the Frontier is a book about post-Civil War history. This detailed, informational novel showcases such engaging topics as the gold rush, outlaws, and the wild western frontier. Excerpt: "The frontier! There is no word in the English language more stirring, more intimate, or more beloved. It has in it all the elan of the old French phrase..."
Conversations with Ann Beattie
Author: Dawn TrouardPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578069231
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Collected interviews with the quintessential New Yorker writer, author of such books as The Doctor's House, Follies, and Falling in Place