Book Description
Standoffs, saloons, and sunsets spring to mind when one envisions the rough and tumble early days of the American frontier.
Author : Leon Claire Metz
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 30,23 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Criminology
ISBN : 143813021X
Standoffs, saloons, and sunsets spring to mind when one envisions the rough and tumble early days of the American frontier.
Author : Bill O'Neal
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 25,66 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 9780712666824
This work contains biographies of 255 gunfighters and gives details of 587 gunfights. It includes dates and places of birth and death, aliases, occupation and a brief biography, followed in chronological order by detailed accounts of verified gunfights by each individual.
Author : Jay Robert Nash
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 48,16 MB
Release : 1994-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306805912
With over 1000 entries and 400 illustrations, this volume is the most fact-packed history of the West ever assembled. Crime historian extraordinaire Jay Robert Nash has left no stone unturned in his search for the gunmen, train robbers, gangs, desperadoes, range warriors, gamblers, and lawmen that roamed the frontier. Contrary to popular myth, the Wild West was not a glamorous land where chivalry and courage were the custom and a man died with his boots on. It was a land of incredible hardships—brutal weather, hunger and disease, and the constant threat of violent death. Everyone carried a six-shooter, neutrality was impossible, and violence unavoidable; lawmen and outlaws lived side by side, and often there was no telling one from the other. Into this land came pioneers lured by promises of great fortunes, ex-Confederate soldiers embittered by the outcome of the war, greedy cattle barons, and merchant princes. It was truly an explosive mixture.Included in this volume are all the great Western legends—Billy the Kid, Jesse and Frank James, Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Judge Roy Bean, ”Wild Bill” Hickock—and a host of lesser-known figures who, though they may have missed notoriety, were equally lethal. And while the West was very much a man's world, several women managed to shoot, steal, or gamble their way to fame—including Belle Starr, Pearl Hart, and Calamity Jane.A compelling read, Encyclopedia of Western Lawmen & Outlaws will be the standard reference for years to come. In addition to alphabetical listings, it offers a glossary of lawmen and a glossary of outlaws, a magnificent photo and illustration appendix, and an extensive bibliography of books on the American West.
Author : Bob Alexander
Publisher : High Lonesome Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 19,81 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Southwest, New
ISBN : 9780944383667
Presents portraits of sixteen notable gunmen of the Southwest, most of them largely unknown.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 13,4 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Outlaws
ISBN :
Author : Bill O'Neal
Publisher :
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,20 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 9780585198507
Author : Jay Robert Nash
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Outlaws
ISBN : 9781557785077
This book is the most fact-packed history of the West ever assembled. Written by crime historian extraordinaire Jay Robert Nash, it leaves no stone unturned as it scours the plains and mountain ranges of the Old West in search of the gunmen, train robbers, gangs, desperadoes, range warriors, gamblers, and lawmen that roamed the untamed land. It is alphabetically arranged with over 1,000 entries and 400 illustrations.--[book jacket].
Author : Doc O'Meara
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Firearms
ISBN : 9780873494335
These are the guns of legendary lawmen, outlaws, and TV heroes. Includes brief biographies of more than 50 gunslingers, half from the Old West and half from Hollywood, plus fascinating stores about 1950s and 1960s celebrities.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 30,40 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 9780933043220
John Beidler. William Preston Longley. Joaquin Murietta. Cattle Kate. Cole Younger. John Wesley Hardin. Jesse James. Black Jack Ketchum. Billy the Kid. Pat Garrett. Black Bart. Tiburcio Vasquez. Wyatt Earp. Bob Dalton. Christian Madsen. Bill Doolin. Bill Tilghman. Heck Thomas.
Author : Buck Rainey
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 29,88 MB
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476603286
Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Hickok, Belle Starr, Wyatt Earp, the Younger Gang, the Dalton-Doolin Gang and Bat Masterson--these real-life lawmen and lawbreakers have been the basis of so many Hollywood Westerns that it has become difficult to discover where the truth ends and the legend begins. All actually became larger-than-life characters during their lifetimes, as contemporary newspapers and books embellished their deeds for their own purposes. But it was in Hollywood that the line between reality and myth was completely blurred. Each chapter-length entry here first focuses on the known facts of the people's lives and how each became truly legendary during their lifetimes. The reality is then compared to how they have been portrayed in the movies.