Wild Guns of Wichita
Author : Brett McKinley
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Page : 98 pages
File Size : 23,70 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Brett McKinley
Publisher :
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 23,70 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Gil Harmon
Publisher :
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 26,61 MB
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Fiction in English, 1900- Texts
ISBN : 9780709130215
Author : Ramon Frederick Adams
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 27,43 MB
Release : 1998-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486400358
Authoritative guide to everything in print about lawmen and the lawless—from Billy the Kid to the painted ladies of frontier cow towns. Nearly 2,500 entries, taken from newspapers, court records, and more.
Author : Stan Hoig
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 13,57 MB
Release : 2011-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 082634156X
Before she was Wichita, Kansas, she was a collection of grass huts, home to the ancestors of the Wichita Indians. Then came the Spanish conquistadors, seeking gold but finding instead vast herds of buffalo. After the Civil War, Wichita played host to a cavalcade of Western men: frontier soldiers, Indian warriors, buffalo hunters, border ruffians, hell-for-leather Texas cattle drovers, ready-to-die gunslingers, and steel-eyed lawmen. Peerless Princess of the Plains, they called her. Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Bat Masterson were here, but so were Jesse Chisholm, Jack Ledford, Rowdy Joe and Rowdy Kate, Buffalo Bill Mathewson, Marshall Mike Meagher, Indian trader James Mead, Oklahoma Harry Hill, city founder Dutch Bill Greiffenstein, and a host of colorful characters like you've never known before. Stan Hoig depicts a once-rambunctious cowtown on the Chisholm Cattle Trail, neighbor to the lawless Indian Territory, roaring and bucking through its Wild West days toward becoming a major American city. Cowtown Wichita and the Wild, Wicked West provides tribute to those sometimes valiant, sometimes wicked, sometimes hilarious, and often audacious characters who played a role in shaping Wichita's past.
Author : Shad Denver
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Page : 97 pages
File Size : 30,10 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : Stan Hoig
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 20,49 MB
Release : 2007-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0826341551
A new look at the colorful history of the Peerless Princess of the Plains.
Author : Joe Stumpe
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 18,98 MB
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1439665419
Early Wichita earned a wicked reputation from newspapers across Kansas thanks to a bevy of madams and murderers, bootleggers and bank robbers, con men and crooked cops. Gambler and saloonkeeper "Rowdy Joe" Lowe was the toast of the town before shooting down his rival, "Red" Beard, and skipping town. Robber and cop killer "Clever Eddie" Adams spread a wave of terror until the police evened the score. Dixie Lee ran the city's classiest brothel with little interference from authorities. Notorious quack "Professor" H. Samuels made a fortune selling worthless eye drops. And county attorney Willard Boone was chased out of town when he was caught with his hand in the bootlegger's cookie jar. Local author Joe Stumpe tells the real stories of the city's best-known and least-known criminals and misfits.
Author : Joseph G. Rosa
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 35,74 MB
Release : 1977
Category : History
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Author : Mick Gidley
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 28,35 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803221932
Housing a wealth of ethnographic information yet steeped in nostalgia and predicated upon the assumption that Native Americans were a "vanishing race," Curtis's work has been both influential and controversial, and its vision of Native Americans must still be reckoned with today."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Adam Winkler
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 38,54 MB
Release : 2011-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0393082296
A provocative history that reveals how guns—not abortion, race, or religion—are at the heart of America's cultural divide. Gunfight is a timely work examining America’s four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. In this definitive and provocative history, Adam Winkler reveals how guns—not abortion, race, or religion—are at the heart of America’s cultural divide. Using the landmark 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller—which invalidated a law banning handguns in the nation’s capital—as a springboard, Winkler brilliantly weaves together the dramatic stories of gun-rights advocates and gun-control lobbyists, providing often unexpected insights into the venomous debate that now cleaves our nation.