Download or read book From Guns to Gavels written by Bill Neal and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Linked accounts of frontier crimes and trials from 1885 to 1929 across West Texas, Indian and New Mexico Territories, and Montana trace the evolution of criminal justice in the American West"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book From Gun to Gavel written by Marshall Houts and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gavel and the Gun written by Jack R. Stanley and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most lawless land in the American West was the 70,000 square miles of frontier Western Arkansas and the Indian Territory of the Five Civilized Tribes; what later would become Oklahoma. Rape, robbery, murder, horse theft, gun and whiskey running were the everyday crimes that often went unpunished. It took both the gavel and the gun --- and hangman¿s knot to tame this land. The Territory was a magnet to outlaws and spoilers of every brand. Law, order, and justice didn¿t come until almost ten years after the Civil War. Law and order finally came in the form of ¿the Hanging Judge,¿ Isaac Parker, a new U.S. Marshal, Mace Truax, and a Choctaw Indian Territorial Policeman named John Browneagle.
Download or read book From Gun to Gavel written by James H. Mathers and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoirs of a long-serving American lawyer who began his practice in 1896 when Oklahoma was still an outlaw's paradise. Some of the dramatic and hilarious events from Mathers' career in which he handled over 1,000 cases involving the death penalty for the accused and often danger for the attorney, judge and jury. Chapters cover many notorious characters of the day including "Machine Gun" Kelly.
Download or read book 13 Steps to Hell LP written by Jack R. Stanley and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 70,000 square miles of the Oklahoma Indian Territory, The Nations, as it was called, was a land of vicious and evil deeds by cruel and heartless outlaws as well as renegade Indians. Mace Truax was the U.S. Marshal for Judge Isaac Parker's court for the U.S. Western District of Arkansas in Ft. Smith. The Judge was allotted 200 Deputy Marshals, but less than half that number was on the job when Parker took the bench. Together the Marshal and the Judge had to bring justice and peace to this land - using the gavel and the gun. Mace had to find hard but honest men to take on the badge, and the Judge had to try cases of horse theft, robbery, fraud, rape, and murder. It was an ongoing tale of the fight for law and order in the American West.
Download or read book Arm of the Bandit written by Johnny D. Boggs and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Guns to Gavels written by John L. Kane and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gavels and Guns written by Paul Lawton and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These diaries chronical the every day life of George Hand while he was a janitor at the Pima County Courthouse. The diaries cover the years 1882 to 1887. George talks about the daily life around the courthouse as well as the daily deaths.
Download or read book Arm of the Bandit written by Johnny D. Boggs and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-11-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a Spur Award–winning author of the Five Star Western Series comes a thrilling tale of James clan. Outlaws Frank and Jesse James eluded capture for 16 years and became folk heroes. In 1882, after Jesse was killed by Bob, Frank surrendered and faced trial for murder. How could Missouri convict a man so popular that the governor almost needed an appointment to visit him in jail? William Wallace had already imprisoned one member of the untouchable James Gang. Now his case rested on the word of a scoundrel and defied those who would kill to protect Frank James. The defense would paint the Shakespeare-quoting robber as an honorable family man and victim of mistaken identity, endlessly persecuted by the hated railroads. Inside an opera house, the circus like trial would decide if James senselessly murdered a young stonemason during the 1881 Winston train robbery. Perhaps the larger question was if Missouri was ruled by the arm of the law—or the arm of the bandit.
Download or read book The Ranger Ideal Volume 2 written by Darren L. Ivey and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They say everything is bigger in Texas, and the Lone Star State can certainly boast of immense ranches, vast oil fields, enormous cowboy hats, and larger-than-life heroes. Among the greatest of the latter are the iconic Texas Rangers, a service that has existed, in one form or another, since 1823. Established in Waco in 1968, the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum continues to honor these legendary symbols of Texas and the American West. While upholding a proud heritage of duty and sacrifice, even men who wear the cinco peso badge can have their own champions. Thirty-one individuals—whose lives span more than two centuries—have been enshrined in the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame. In The Ranger Ideal Volume 2: Texas Rangers in the Hall of Fame, 1874-1930, Darren L. Ivey presents capsule biographies of the twelve inductees who served Texas in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Ivey begins with John B. Jones, who directed his Rangers through their development from state troops to professional lawmen; then covers Leander H. McNelly, John B. Armstrong, James B. Gillett, Jesse Lee Hall, George W. Baylor, Bryan Marsh, and Ira Aten—the men who were responsible for some of the Rangers’ most legendary feats. Ivey concludes with James A. Brooks, William J. McDonald, John R. Hughes, and John H. Rogers, the “Four Great Captains” who guided the Texas Rangers into the twentieth century.
Download or read book Law of the Land written by Johnny D. Boggs and published by Large Print Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his first jailbreak in Silver City to his days riding with the infamous Regulators, Billy the Kid has made himself famous for his crimes. Now it's time for him to answer. Billy, however, has other plans. Original.
Download or read book Massacre At Going Snake written by Jack R. Stanley and published by Wrightbridge Press. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oklahoma Indian Territory, known as The Nations, was a place of four laws - the unwritten laws of nature, the moral laws of man, the laws of the Indian tribes settled there, and the US federal law. The last was administered through the "hanging judge's" court in Ft. Smith. The Five Civilized Tribes had their own courts, Indian Police, and judges within their allotted districts. To cover the whole 70,000 squares, Judge Isaac Parker had US Marshal Mace Truax and his band of Deputy Marshals. They confronted the renegades of all tribes, the whites, the blacks, the Mexicans - the outlaws, rapists, murderers, whiskey runners, and spoilers of any stripe. Some offenses straddled both tribal law and US law. Such a case led to the Massacre at Going Snake.
Download or read book Now You Are Told written by Bill Neal and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Now You Are Told: A Collection of True Tales from My Yesteryears, Bill Neal tells both serious and often funny and memorable true stories from his life. He begins with a history of the area, including the Comanche Indians, and how they influenced the naming of his hometown of Medicine Mound, Texas. These stories give us a glimpse of frontier life during the thirties and forties while growing up on a large West Texas ranch. One vivid childhood memory includes December 7, 1941, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and forever changed life in America. After becoming friends with A. C. Greene, his college journalism teacher, Bill started an interesting career as a news reporter in several West Texas towns. Later, a desire to be his own boss led him to a new career. After graduating number one from his University of Texas Law School class in 1964, Bill returned to his home turf to practice law. He tells us of the unbelievable cases he handled-some funny and some sad-during his forty-year law career, as well as other unbelievable incidences that happened along the way.
Download or read book Exchange written by Pierre Lagayette and published by Presses Paris Sorbonne. This book was released on 2005 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recueil de textes sur l'échange culturel, symbolique ou matériel. Les auteurs montrent que les échanges peuvent constituer le fondement de l'entente entre les peuples. Des textes analysent cette pratique dans le cadre de relations ethniques, éclairant la situation des Indiens, notamment en Californie et au Mexique.
Download or read book Age of the Gunfighter written by Joseph G. Rosa and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph G. Rosa's vivid and expertly written tale of this violent time combines contemporary accounts with meticulous historical research and an unjaundiced appraisal of the facts. Telling the story of every major gunfighter, peace officer, and outlaw of the West, Rosa places them within the context of a violent frontier and the coming of law and order. Complementing the text are twenty-seven outstanding color spreads featuring firearms from the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum (Los Angeles) and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center (Cody). Many of the spreads contain guns owned and used by such well-known individuals as Pat Garrett, Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickok, John Wesley Hardin, Frank James, and Harvey Logan.
Download or read book Give a Boy a Gun written by Jack Olsen and published by Crime Rant Books. This book was released on with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war between society and the antisocial personality has long been a subject of fascination, and few have explored it as thoroughly as award-winning author Jack Olsen. In his national best seller Son: A Psychopath and His Victims, Olsen studied a psychopathic rapist who found the perfect protective coloration in jogging shoes and sweats. In this book, the story of Claude Lafayette Dallas, Jr., Olsen takes on perhaps his most challenging assignment -- explicating the curious relationship between a homicidal young "mountain man" and those who saw in his colorful ways the embodiment of the cowboy mystique of the West. On a snow-blown day, Dallas killed two game wardens who entered his trapping and poaching camp in ldaho's Owyhee Desert. The cold-bloodedness of Dallas's crime shocked the West. Stained with his victim's blood. he confessed to a companion, "This is Murder One for me." Then Claude Dallas vanished into the wild and rugged mountains that had sheltered him for so long. For fifteen long months he was the subject of an international manhunt until the FBI and a drawling country sheriff joined forces to run him to earth in a rain of bullets. Only then did lawmen learn about the network of friends who had helped him elude capture. To some of Dallas's rustic neighbors the deadly progression from cowboy to poacher to killer seemed justifiable, even admirable. Clanking around the bars and barrancas of the high desert country in his hand-filed spurs and well-oiled guns, Claude Dallas had brought a strange new madness to the mythology of the West, a madness that even a jury of his peers found nostalgically seductive in a sensational trial. Claude Dallas came within a whisker of going free. Only Jack Olsen, through painstaking research into Dallas's background and exhaustive on-the-scene interviewing, could unravel such a rat's nest of contradictions and confusions and create so compelling a portrait of the killer whose bloody deeds might have been foreordained from childhood. From Publishers Weekly Claude Dallas Jr. was raised in Upper Michigan and Ohio by a father whose philosophy was "give a boy a gun and you're makin' a man." After high school, the young man went to the rugged border area of Idaho, Oregon and Nevada and worked as a cow-puncher and handyman on several ranches. But his dream was evidently to become a 19th centurystyle mountain man and so he turned to poaching, often killing animals even though he had no need for the meat. In 1981, he killed two game wardens in front of a witness. On the run for 15 months, he was eventually captured in a shootout and found guilty of manslaughter in a singularly bizarre trial. From Library Journal ``Give a boy a gun and you're makin' a man,'' Claude Dallas, Sr., is quoted as saying in this book about his son, Claude Jr., a self-made cowboy, trapper, and ``mountain man'' who was convicted of manslaughter in the shooting deaths of two Idaho game wardens. Claude Jr. was well-liked by many, including a sympathetic jury which rejected possible first or second degree murder verdicts. Was it a case of self-defense or outright murder? Olsen, who last wrote the popular `` Son'': a psychopath and his victims ( LJ 11/15/83), skillfully presents his viewpoint in a readable tale more reminiscent of Old West traditions than of the 1980s. Recommended.
Download or read book Arm of the Bandit written by Johnny D. Boggs and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
