Frontier Colorado Gunfights

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ISBN 13 : 9781928656128
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontier Colorado Gunfights written by and published by . This book was released on 1917-11-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century ago, disputes in Colorado were often settled with a six-shooter or a rifle. Often the judicial system was weak or unorganized. Some criminals got away. In these 31 true stories of frontier Colorado gunfights, the reader will sense the state¿s struggle to emerge from bouts of violence into a civilized society. Author Kenneth Jessen includes some of the West¿s most notorious characters such as Doc Holliday, gunfighter Clay Allison, ruthless Bob Meldrum and Bob Ford, the man who killed Jesse James.

Author : Kenneth Jessen
Publisher : Jv Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780961166250
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colorado Gunsmoke written by Kenneth Jessen and published by Jv Publications. This book was released on 1995-10-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth Christian Jessen
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ISBN 13 : 9780871087171
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colorado Gunsmoke written by Kenneth Christian Jessen and published by . This book was released on 1986-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features stories of 26 of Colorado's most flamboyant outlaws and lawmen.

Author : Tom Clavin
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250174015
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Bill written by Tom Clavin and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City. In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO—the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus began the reputation that made him a marked man to every gunslinger in the Wild West. James Butler Hickock was known across the frontier as a soldier, Union spy, scout, lawman, gunfighter, gambler, showman, and actor. He crossed paths with General Custer and Buffalo Bill Cody, as well as Ben Thompson and other young toughs gunning for the sheriff with the quickest draw west of the Mississippi. Wild Bill also fell in love—multiple times—before marrying the true love of his life, Agnes Lake, the impresario of a traveling circus. He would be buried however, next to fabled frontierswoman Calamity Jane. Even before his death, Wild Bill became a legend, with fiction sometimes supplanting fact in the stories that surfaced. Once, in a bar in Nebraska, he was confronted by four men, three of whom he killed in the ensuing gunfight. A famous Harper’s Magazine article credited Hickok with slaying 10 men that day; by the 1870s, his career-long kill count was up to 100. The legend of Wild Bill has only grown since his death in 1876, when cowardly Jack McCall famously put a bullet through the back of his head during a card game. Bestselling author Tom Clavin has sifted through years of western lore to bring Hickock fully to life in this rip-roaring, spellbinding true story.

Author : Rod Miller
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493015206
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Frontier written by Rod Miller and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West goes beyond the tales everyone knows of the OK Corral and the Dead Man’s Hand to focus on the gunfights, massacres, and daring deeds that are the stars of local historians but not featured in general histories of the old west. These events, while less well known, offer new territory for the Wild West buff to explore. Each chapter in this book tells a story that deserves to be remembered—either because of its importance, its intrigue, or just because it’s interesting. From cowboys and Indians to explorers and electricity to warfare and gunfights to royalty and rogues, the stories here cover a frontier West your education may have missed.

Author : Roger D. McGrath
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520060261
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gunfighters, Highwaymen, and Vigilantes written by Roger D. McGrath and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987-03-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Paula Mitchell Marks
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806128887
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book And Die in the West written by Paula Mitchell Marks and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gunfight at the O.K. Corral has excited the imaginations of Western enthusiasts ever since that chilly October afternoon in 1881 when Doc Holliday and the three fighting Earps strode along a Tombstone, Arizona, street to confront the Clanton and McLaury brothers. When they met, Billy Clanton and the two McLaurys were shot to death; the popular image of the Wild West was reinforced; and fuel was provided for countless arguments over the characters, motives, and actions of those involved. And Die in the West presents the first fully detailed, objective narrative of the celebrated gunfight, of the tensions leading up to it, and the bitter, bloody events that followed. Paula Mitchell Marks places the events surrounding the gunfight against a larger backdrop of a booming Tombstone and the fluid, frontier environment of greed, factions and violence. In the process, Marks strips away many of the myths associated with the famous gunfight and of the West in general.

Author : Ian Hernon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781398109100
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wild East written by Ian Hernon and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New B-format paperback - The first book to show that during the era of Wild West, the most dangerous place to be was in the Wilder East, far from the American frontier.

Author : Nelson Coral Nye
Publisher : Thorndike Press
ISBN 13 : 9780783893174
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gunfight at the O.K. Corral written by Nelson Coral Nye and published by Thorndike Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday stood side by side in the strangest alliance in the old frontier, and it ended in a bloody climax at the O.K. Corral.

Author : James Reasoner
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440673020
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Draw written by James Reasoner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-12-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for his ability to make history come vividly to life, Reasoner strips away the dime novel legends and Hollywood myths to show us how the gunfighters of the Old West really lived, killed, and were killed. Praised for his “well-researched” (Booklist) and “lively, suspenseful” (Publishers Weekly) novels, James Reasoner now proves that truth can be even more exciting than fiction. Among the true stories he brings us: • Doc Holliday’s Last Gunfight • The Last Bloody Ride of the Dalton Gang • The End of the Notorious John Wesley Hardin • Wild Bill’s Tragic Mistake • The End of an Earp • Turkey Creek Canyon Shoot-out • Gunfight at Stone Corral • The Doolin Bunch vs. the U.S. Marshals • Rourke’s Bad Luck Robbery • Shoot-out at the Tuttle Dance Hall • Wichita’s New Year’s Day Gunfight • Bat Masterson and the Battle of the Plaza • The Sam Bass Gang’s Luck Runs Out • The Long Branch Saloon’s Spectacular Fray • Ben Thompson’s Christmas Day Shooting • The Man Who Killed the Man Who Killed Jesse James • and more! These are the shoot-outs and showdowns that gave the Wild West its name, recounted here with gritty accuracy, colorful detail, and all the drama of life—and death—on the frontier.