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Author Dolan, Samuel K

Title Cowboys and gangsters : stories from an untamed Southwest / Samuel K. Dolan
Published Guilford, Connecticut : TwoDot, 2016

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Contents Introduction: Six-guns & automobiles -- The wail of the bootlegger -- Cold in death -- The toughest town on the Santa Fe -- Purity squad -- Manhunt -- Dry agents -- Liquor war on the Rio Grande -- Where roughnecks are needed -- "Honor first" -- "You were looking for me last night" -- Contrabandistas -- Brave men
Summary "Utilizing official records, newspaper accounts, and oral histories, this book tells the story of the untamed Wild West of the Prohibition era (1920s-1930s) and introduces a gallery of Western gunfighters and lawmen"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Prohibition -- Southwest, New
Outlaws -- Southwest, New -- Biography
Gangsters -- Southwest, New -- Biography
Peace officers -- Southwest, New -- Biography
Crime -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Crime
Gangsters
Outlaws
Peace officers
Prohibition
Social conditions
SUBJECT Southwest, New -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Southwest, New -- Biography
Subject New Southwest
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016010645
ISBN 9781442246706
1442246707