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.
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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.