Book Description
Sifting factual information from among the lies, legends, and tall tales, the lives and battles of gunfighters on both sides of the law are presented in a who's who of the violent West
Author : Bill O'Neal
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 10,63 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780806123356
Sifting factual information from among the lies, legends, and tall tales, the lives and battles of gunfighters on both sides of the law are presented in a who's who of the violent West
Author : William Dale Jennings
Publisher : In the Hands of a Child
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 19,37 MB
Release :
Category : Cowboys
ISBN :
Author : Al Cimino
Publisher : Chartwell Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 13,29 MB
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0785833765
Delve into the world of the Wild West and the gunslingers that populated its dusty towns and saloons.
Author : John Marvin Hunter
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 17,95 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Outlaws
ISBN :
This album contains photographs and short biographies of many gun-fighters connected in one way or another with the growth of the legend of Billy the Kid, John Selman, Pat Garrett, and many others.
Author : Roger D. McGrath
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,89 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0520341732
From the Preface:On the frontier, says conventional wisdom, a structured society did not exist and social control was largely absent; law enforcement and the criminal justice system had limited, if any, influence; and danger--both from man and from the elements--was ever present. This view of the frontier is projected by motion pictures, television, popular literature, and most scholarly histories. But was the frontier really all that violent? What was the nature of the violence that did occur? Were frontier towns more violent that cities in the East? Has America inherited a violent way of life from the frontier? Was the frontier more violent than the United States is today? This book attempts to answer these questions and others about violence and lawlessness on the frontier and do so in a new way. Whereas most authors have drawn their conclusions about frontier violence from the exploits of a few notorious badmen and outlaws and from some of the more famous incidents and conflicts, I have chosen to focus on two towns that I think were typical of the frontier--the mining frontier specifically--and to investigate all forms of violence and lawlessness that occurred in and around those towns.
Author : Forrest Stephen Harris
Publisher : Knuckleduster
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 26,15 MB
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780966704662
Gunfighter's Ball is a set of tabletop miniatures rules for recreating Wild West gunfights with miniature figures and terrain.
Author : W. B. (Bat) Masterson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 28,33 MB
Release : 2012-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0486131319
Bat Masterson's illustrated biographies of legendary gunslingers Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Luke Short, Bill Tilghman, Ben Thompson, and others paint a vivid portrait of the Old West, a world of sharpshooters, cattle rustlers, and Dodge City justice.
Author : Lea Franklin McCarty
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781258988319
This is a new release of the original 1959 edition.
Author : Albert Marrin
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,98 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Cattle trade
ISBN : 9780689317743
An action-packed story of the days when ranchers vied with the native peoples to rule the plains of North America. Reproductions of Western art will introduce readers to Marrin's vivid re-creation of history. His accurate, carefully researched text makes it a valuable reference tool as well. Illustrated with photos, prints, and paintings.
Author : Paul T. Gillcrist
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 36,61 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780887407666
Once known as the "Last of the Gunfighters", the Vought F-8 Crusader has since become a legend in the histories of the U.S. and French navies, as well as a scourge in the skies over North Vietnam in the late 1960s! CRUSADER! is a vital oral history of one of the most controversial fighter planes in carrier aviation. A key to the authenticity of this story are the author's personal interviews with sixteen of the seventeen living Crusader pilots who became MiG killers in the Vietnam air war. His analysis of their aerial engagements over North Vietnam from 1965 to 1973 contains some startling surprises, as well as a validation of many of the tactical lessons learned from World War II and Korea. CRUSADER! also contains personal accounts by F-8 speed record holders such as U.S. Marine Corps Major (now Senator) John Glenn and Captains Bob Dose and "Duke" Windsor. Other aviation records held by the Crusader, (not so enviable) are told, in anecdotal form, for the first time by the author, an F-8 driver and participant in some of them! Colorful, and sometimes humorous, accounts of events involving the F-8 and "Crusader Drivers" abound in this chronicle of carrier aviation covering the three decades when this remarkable airplane was an important element of the U.S. Navy's carrier strike forces. Rear Admiral Paul T. Gillcrist commanded a fleet Crusader squadron, then a carrier air wing and finally, as a flag officer, became wing commander for all Pacific Fleet fighter squadrons. During his fleet squadron command he completed three carrier deployments to the Tonkin Gulf and flew 167 combat missions in the Crusader for which he was awarded seventeen combat decorations. The author of FEET WET, Reflections of a Carrier Pilot (1990) and TOMCAT, The Grumman F-14 Story (1994), Admiral Gillcrist is well qualified to write the story of the Crusader!