Download or read book Dynamite and Six shooter written by Jeff Burton and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Deadliest Outlaws written by Jeffrey Burton and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century Tom Ketchum and his brother Sam formed the Ketchum Gang with other outlaws and became successful train robbers. In their day, these men were the most daring of their kind, and the most feared. Eventually Tom Ketchum was caught and sentenced to death for attempting to hold up a railway train. He became the first individual--and the last--ever to be executed for a crime of this sort. Jeffrey Burton has been researching the story of the Ketchum Gang for more than forty years. He sorts fact from fiction to provide the definitive truth about Ketchum and numerous other outlaws, including Will Carver and Butch Cassidy. The Deadliest Outlaws initially was published in a limited run of one hundred paperback copies in England. This second edition in hardcover contains additional material and photographs not found in the earlier printing.
Download or read book In Search of Butch Cassidy written by Larry Pointer and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-07-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was Butch Cassidy? He was born Robert LeRoy Parker in 1866 in Utah. And, as everyone knows, after years of operating with a sometime gang of outlaws known as the Wild Bunch, he and the Sundance Kid escaped to South America, only to die in a 1908 shootout with a Bolivian cavalry troop. But did he die? Some say that he didn’t die in Bolivia, but returned to live out a quiet life in Spokane, Washington where he died peacefully in 1937. In interviews with the author, scores of his friends and relatives and their descendants in Wyoming, Utah, and Washington concurred, claiming that Butch Cassidy had returned from Bolivia and lived out the remainder of his life in Spokane under the alias William T. Phillips. In 1934 William T. Phillips wrote an unpublished manuscript, an (auto) biography of Butch Cassidy, “The Bandit Invincible, the Story of Butch Cassidy.” Larry Pointer, marshalling an overwhelming amount of evidence, is convinced that William T. Phillips and Butch Cassidy were the same man. The details of his life, though not ending spectacularly in a Bolivian shootout, are more fascinating than the until-now accepted version of the outlaw’s life. There was a shootout with the Bolivian cavalry, but, according to Butch (Phillips), he was able to escape under the cover of darkness, sadly leaving behind his longtime friend, the Sundance Kid, dead. Then came Paris, a minor bit of facelifting, Michigan, marriage, Arizona, Mexico with perhaps a tour as a sharpshooter for Pancho Villa, Alaska, and at last the life of a businessman in Spokane. In between there were some quiet return trips to visit old friends and haunts in Wyoming and Utah. The author, with the invaluable help of Cassidy’s autobiography, has pieced together the full and final story of a remarkable outlaw—from his Utah Mormon origins, through his escapades of banditry and his escape to South America, to his self-rehabilitation as William T. Phillips, a productive and respected member of society.
Download or read book The United States Marshals of New Mexico and Arizona Territories 1846 1912 written by Larry D. Ball and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1982-02-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First released in 1978 and still the best account of territorial law enforcement, this book presents a thoroughly researched, well-documented, and entertaining history of United States marshals in New Mexico and Arizona during the tumultuous territorial years. Included in the story are notable lawmen such as John Pratt, John E. Sherman, and Creighton M. Foraker and gunfighters like Billy the Kid, "Doc" Holliday, and the Earp Brothers. With detailed accounts of many other lesser-known lawmen and criminals, Ball gives a well-rounded history of the mundane as well as the spectacular incidents in the lives of these lawmen during the unstable territorial years.
Download or read book History of the Explosives Industry in America written by Arthur Pine Van Gelder and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative history of the explosives industry in the United States and Canada that discusses the technical development of the industry as well its commercial history.
Download or read book Slocum 299 Slocum and the Bone Robbers written by Jake Logan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slocum’s in the middle of a blood feud—over bones. For three squares a day, Slocum’s putting his shooting skills to use guarding cattle on the Triple Cross Ranch. His other talents are being spent on a certain buxom beauty from back East, who has some strange ideas about how to keep Slocum entertained… Seems her boss—a lily-livered bone-doctor—has set his sights on some nearby dinosaur fossils. Problem is, his colleague has staked his claim to the find. And unless Slocum can finagle some kind of bone-a-fide deal, these Yanks will drive each other into extinction…
Download or read book The Gulf The Making of An American Sea written by Jack E. Davis and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner • Pulitzer Prize for History Winner • Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Finalist • National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, NPR, Library Journal, and gCaptain Booklist Editors’ Choice (History) Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence In this “cri de coeur about the Gulf’s environmental ruin” (New York Times), “Davis has written a beautiful homage to a neglected sea” (front page, New York Times Book Review). Hailed as a “nonfiction epic . . . in the tradition of Jared Diamond’s best-seller Collapse, and Simon Winchester’s Atlantic” (Dallas Morning News), Jack E. Davis’s The Gulf is “by turns informative, lyrical, inspiring and chilling for anyone who cares about the future of ‘America’s Sea’ ” (Wall Street Journal). Illuminating America’s political and economic relationship with the environment from the age of the conquistadors to the present, Davis demonstrates how the Gulf’s fruitful ecosystems and exceptional beauty empowered a growing nation. Filled with vivid, untold stories from the sportfish that launched Gulfside vacationing to Hollywood’s role in the country’s first offshore oil wells, this “vast and welltold story shows how we made the Gulf . . . [into] a ‘national sacrifice zone’ ” (Bill McKibben). The first and only study of its kind, The Gulf offers “a unique and illuminating history of the American Southern coast and sea as it should be written” (Edward O. Wilson).
Download or read book Last of the Old Time Outlaws written by Karen Holliday Tanner and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soft-spoken, cheerful, handsome, and well dressed, George West Musgrave “looked more like a senator than a cattle rustler.” Yet he was a cattle rustler as well as a bandit, robber, and killer, “guilty of more crimes than Billy the Kid was ever accused of.” In Last of the Old-Time Outlaws, Karen Holliday Tanner and John D. Tanner, Jr., recount the colorful life of Musgrave (1877-1947), enduring badman of the American Southwest. Musgrave was a charter member of the High Five/Black Jack gang, which was responsible for Arizona’s first bank hold-up, numerous post office and stagecoach robberies, and the largest Santa Fe Railroad heist in history. Following a decade-long hunt, he was captured and acquitted of killing a former Texas Ranger. After this near brush with prison or execution, he headed for South America, where he gained fame as the leading Gringo rustler. It wasn’t until the 1940s that Musgrave’s age and poor health brought an end to a criminal career that had spanned two continents and two centuries. Incorporating previously unknown facts about the career of this frontier outlaw, the Tanners thoroughly document Musgrave’s half-century of crime, from his childhood in the Texas brush country to his final days in Paraguay.
Download or read book Two Six Shooters Beat Four Aces written by Barbara Marriott, Ph.D. and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taken from the interviews conducted by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Arizona during the Great Depression,this regional history offers more than facts, figures, and stilted portraits of “important history.” This glimpse into the lives of regional lifestyles—particularly in the relatively young state of Arizona—portrays history from the perspective of those who lived it. Gathered into chapters on outlaws and lawmen, miners and prospectors, cowboys, shepherds, and those who came to the state for its mineral wealth, the descriptions offered by the Arizona pioneers in these interviews become a powerful tapestry of adventure and men’s dreams.
Download or read book Hell s Half Acre written by Richard F. Selcer and published by TCU Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes material on Luke Short, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Sam Bass, and Butch Cassiday.
Download or read book The Bronco Bill Gang written by Karen Holliday Tanner and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short, bloody career of "Bronco Bill" Walters and his gang captures the devil-may-care violence of the Wild West. In this detailed narrative of the gang's crime spree in territorial New Mexico and Arizona, two experts in outlaw history offer a gunshot-by-gunshot account of how some especially dangerous outlaws plied their trade in 1898. William Walters reached New Mexico Territory from Texas in the late 1880s and quickly gained a reputation for his ability to sit a horse and for his violent ways. The Bronco Bill Gang skillfully dissects his propensity for trouble and shows how he soon found himself in the territorial penitentiary. In the spring of 1898, after a sojourn stealing horses in Arizona, Walters and four apprentice outlaws turned to armed robbery, holding up passenger trains on the Santa Fe Railroad in Grants and Belén, New Mexico. By the time a Wells Fargo posse captured Bronco Bill, two of the outlaws, two deputies, and a Navajo tracker had been killed in gunfights. Anyone with a taste for western history or an interest in New Mexico and Arizona in the bad old days will find this book irresistible. The authors' attention to the ways Bill and his men fell into a life of crime shows us the real West, where cowboys and gunmen could wind up on either side of the law. The Bronco Bill Gang is the first book to explore this fabled band of outlaws who crisscrossed the American Southwest.
Download or read book Pearson s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 49, no. 9 (Sept. 1922) accompanied by a separately paged section entitled ERA: electronic reactions of Abrams.
Download or read book Winds of Time written by B. G. Simpson and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six college students, all born on the same date in the same year, have at one time in their lives gone into a coma, except for one. They all have similar experiences of dreams or nightmares about the same situation, where they feel they are on the edge of eternity faced with incredible connections to their real lives. Drew and five of his college peers - called the "circle" - are running out of time. They have only a few weeks to find a series of lost scrolls from a time long forgotten. Their college professor has told them of their connections to the past, revealing the doomsday theory to be fact. The six are forced to separate when the world begins to fall apart. Members of the circle have to travel back in time to find the answers and save the planet. In the first book of this sci-fi adventure, Winds of Time: Oracles of the Great-Gulf Book One, meet Drew, Bella, Angela, Anna, Jake, and Tommy, who are targeted by an ancient secret from the past.
Download or read book Adventure written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slocum 377 written by Jake Logan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slocum's running hot and cold... One man’s misfortune is another man’s gain. In John Slocum’s case, he gets his hands on road agents’ poorly hidden bags of stolen silver. Making off with the loot, he slips into Tombstone hoping to enjoy his winnings peacefully. But that’s never the case for someone like Slocum… Easy on the eyes, Spring Atkins can make a man feel warm inside, but her heart is as cold as ice. Slocum’s instinct is on the mark when he learns from her sisters, Summer and Autumn—that Spring stole the ore-rich Silver Chalice mine from them. He knows better than to get in the middle of a family dispute, but when the road agents come looking for revenge, he can use the seasons to his advantage—if they don’t leave him as dead as a winter frost…
Download or read book Wish You Were Here written by Tom Holt and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a busy day on Lake Chicopee, where an eclectic bunch of sightseers and tourists had the strange local residents rubbing their hands with delight. Among them was a young man from England, who was there because he knew about the legend of the ghost of Okeewana and what she promised.
Download or read book West of Hell s Fringe written by Glenn Shirley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1990-09-01 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an account of crime in Oklahoma Territority from 1889 to 1907.
