Bad Company and Burnt Powder : Justice and Injustice in the Old Southwest.
Alexander, Bob.
Bad Company and Burnt Powder : Justice and Injustice in the Old Southwest. - Denton : University of North Texas Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (481 pages). - Frances B. Vick Series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
Bad Company and Burnt Powder is a collection of twelve stories of when things turned ""Western"" in the nineteenth-century Southwest. Each chapter deals with a different character or episode in the Wild West involving various lawmen, Texas Rangers, outlaws, feudists, vigilantes, lawyers, and judges.
9781574415803
Texas Rangers--History.
Law enforcement--History.--Texas
Crime--History--Southwestern States--19th century.
Crime--History--Southwestern States--20th century.
Law enforcement--History--Southwestern States--19th century.
Law enforcement--History--Southwestern States--20th century.
Frontier and pioneer life--Southwestern States.
Crime--Southwestern States--History--19th century.
Crime--Southwestern States--History--20th century.
Frontier and pioneer life--Southwestern States.
Law enforcement--Southwestern States--History--19th century.
Law enforcement--Southwestern States--History--20th century.
Electronic Books.
F786 / .B333 2014
Bad Company and Burnt Powder : Justice and Injustice in the Old Southwest. - Denton : University of North Texas Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (481 pages). - Frances B. Vick Series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
Bad Company and Burnt Powder is a collection of twelve stories of when things turned ""Western"" in the nineteenth-century Southwest. Each chapter deals with a different character or episode in the Wild West involving various lawmen, Texas Rangers, outlaws, feudists, vigilantes, lawyers, and judges.
9781574415803
Texas Rangers--History.
Law enforcement--History.--Texas
Crime--History--Southwestern States--19th century.
Crime--History--Southwestern States--20th century.
Law enforcement--History--Southwestern States--19th century.
Law enforcement--History--Southwestern States--20th century.
Frontier and pioneer life--Southwestern States.
Crime--Southwestern States--History--19th century.
Crime--Southwestern States--History--20th century.
Frontier and pioneer life--Southwestern States.
Law enforcement--Southwestern States--History--19th century.
Law enforcement--Southwestern States--History--20th century.
Electronic Books.
F786 / .B333 2014