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Wild West Magazine
Ten Deadly Texans by Dan Anderson and Laurence J. Yadon, Pelican Publishing, Gretna, La., 2009, $16.95. Naturally, there were far more than just 10 such characters. In post–Civil War Texas, badmen virtually sprouted up between the Rio...
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Wild West Magazine
The Results Were Deadly for One of Them. The other two faced long stints in Folsom State Prison. Wells Fargo expressman William Hendricks loaded his shotgun and climbed aboard the stagecoach in Angels Camp on May 19, 1894, for the 20- mile...
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Wild West Magazine
Dangerous Visitors: The Lawless Era by Orval E. Allbritton, Garland County Historical Society, Hot Springs, Ark., 2008. Hot Springs, Arkansas, doesn’t usually spring to mind as a hotbed of lawlessness, but it’s safe to say not everyone...
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Wild West Magazine
Thunder Over the Prairie: The True Story of a Murder and a Manhunt by the Greatest Posse of all Time by Howard Kazanjian and Chris Enss, TwoDot (The Globe Pequot Press), Guilford, Conn., 2009, $14.95. The trigger finger of frontier fate...
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Wild West Magazine
The Deadliest Outlaws: The Ketchum Gang and the Wild Bunch by Jeffrey Burton, University of North Texas Press, Denton, 2009, $34.95. For more than 30 years, English author Jeffrey Burton has been researching hard case Tom Ketchum,...
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Wild West Magazine
One more reason to visit this New Mexico resort town. Lincoln the town and Lincoln the county were the center of much guns-a-blazin’ Wild West action in 1870s–80s New Mexico Territory, and they still get their share of attention from...
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Wild West Magazine
Frontier lawyer Henry Clay McDougal took on the fearsome outlaw in court—and never backed down. Among the most dangerous and feared badmen on the Western frontier, Jesse James frightened folks even in states where he had never set foot....
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Wild West Magazine
Centers on Bill Mackin’s world-renowned collection. Rugged and remote Moffat County was once a go-to place for Wild Bunch members and other outlaws seeking to escape the long arm of the law. Today, it’s a great place for law-abiding...
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Wild West Magazine
His early days are little known and his later life largely a blank. But in between, this shadowy hard case rode with outlaw gangs in Wyoming and Dakota territories and became a gun handler of the first rank. Gunman-turned-rancher Jack...
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Wild West Magazine
To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West by Mark Lee Gardner, William Morrow, New York, 2010, $26.99. Mark Lee Gardner might be asking for trouble. His dual biography of...
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Wild West Magazine
The outlaw made his deadly mark in Missouri and Colorado. William Rabedew, a law officer from Fairplay, Colorado, arrived in Joplin, Missouri, on August 6, 1892, with a warrant for the arrest of George Hudson of neighboring Granby. Joplin...
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Wild West Magazine
At an isolated California settlement, a band of thieves took all the loot they could. One assured his helpless victims, ‘For my part, I won’t hurt anyone.’ But their ruthless head man made no such promise. Tiburcio Vásquez swayed...
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Wild West Magazine
Legal Executions in the Western Territories, 1847– 1911 by R. Michael Wilson, McFarland & Co., Jefferson, N.C., 2010, $95. Author R. Michael Wilson goes where other researchers fear to tread due to the daunting amount of work...
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Wild West Magazine
Alias Soapy Smith: The Life and Death of a Scoundrel by Jeff Smith, Klondike Research, Juneau, Alaska, 2009, $26. Firearms figure only occasionally—albeit significantly when they do—in Jefferson Randolph Smith II’s life of...
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Wild West Magazine
Longtime Arizona Territory lawman Pete Gabriel waited for his former deputy-turned-enemy at the bar in Florence. Joe Phy soon showed up, armed with six-shooter and bowie knife. Pete Gabriel rested his lean frame against the mahogany bar of...
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Wild West Magazine
As the Dalton brothers discovered in Coffeyville and the James-Younger Gang did in Northfield, crime didnʼt pay when the citizens of a targeted community took a stand. Contrary to Hollywood myth, most townspeople didn’t walk the streets...
