Title Bad Company and Burnt Powder : Justice and Injustice in the Old Southwest / Bob Alexander

Published Denton : University of North Texas Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (481 pages) Series Frances B. Vick Series Frances B. Vick series. Contents 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 422-439) and index Notes Print version record Subject Texas Rangers -- History SUBJECT Texas Rangers fast Subject Law enforcement -- Texas -- History Crime -- Southwestern States -- History -- 19th century Crime -- Southwestern States -- History -- 20th century Law enforcement -- Southwestern States -- History -- 19th century Law enforcement -- Southwestern States -- History -- 20th century Frontier and pioneer life -- Southwestern States HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. Crime Frontier and pioneer life Law enforcement SUBJECT Southwestern States -- History -- 19th century Southwestern States -- History -- 20th century Subject Texas United States -- Southwestern States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781574415803 1574415808

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