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21 produkter
Deadly Dozen
Twelve Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, Vol. 1
Häftad, 2009
291 kr
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Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday - such are the legendary names that spring to mind when we think of the western gunfighter. But in the American West of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thousands of grassroots gunfighters straddled both sides of the law without hesitation. …
Bat Masterson
The Man and the Legend
Häftad, 1989
249 kr
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The colorful figures of the western American frontier, the Indian fighters, the mountain men, the outlaws, and the lawmen, have been romanticized for more than a hundred years by writers who found it easier to invent history than the research it. ""Bat"" Masterson was one such character who cast a …
Knights of the Green Cloth
The Saga of the Frontier Gamblers
Häftad, 1990
399 kr
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The English essayist Charles Lamb once said, ""Man is a gaming animal."" If he had known the American frontier gamblers depicted in this book, he might have added ""in spades,"" referring to the avidity with which these ""knight of the green cloth"" pursued their profession.All of the pioneers who …
George Scarborough
The Life and Death of a Lawman on the Closing Frontier
Häftad, 1996
225 kr
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Now, for the first time, Robert K. DeArment has told the full story of George Scarborough's life, illuminating his activity as a lawman during the final part of the nineteenth century and his controversial killings while wearing the badge-he was tried for murder on three occasions and acquitted …
Alias Frank Canton
Häftad, 1997
491 kr
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Here for the first time is the complete life story of the controversial lawman Frank Canton, born Joe Horner, who, after conviction and imprisonment for armed robbery, escaped to change his name and transform himself into an ambitious, hard-working peace officer pursuing felons all over the western …
Bravo of the Brazos
John Larn of Fort Griffin, Texas
Häftad, 2005
225 kr
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More than a century after his death in 1878, the mere mention of John Larn's name can trigger strong reactions along the Clear Fork of the Brazos River in northern Texas. In Bravo of the Brazos, Robert K. DeArment tells for the first time the complete story of this enigmatic and controversial …
Ballots and Bullets
The Bloody County Seat Wars of Kansas
Inbunden, 2006
355 kr
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Bleeding Kansas"" has earned its name. A state already scarred from the violence wrought by the likes of John Brown and William Quantrill, Kansas witnessed further episodes of wanton bloodshed in the late nineteenth century when settlers poured into a supposedly peaceful frontier.Focusing on the …
Deadly Dozen
Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, Vol. 2
Inbunden, 2007
413 kr
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Think gunfighter, and Wyatt Earp or Billy the Kid may come to mind, but what of Jim Moon? Joel Fowler? Zack Light? A host of other figures helped forge the gunfighter persona, but their stories have been lost to time. In a sequel to his Deadly Dozen, celebrated western historian Robert K. DeArment …
Deadly Dozen
Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, Vol. 3
Inbunden, 2010
363 kr
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For every Wild Bill Hickok or Billy the Kid, there was another western gunfighter just as deadly but not as well known. Robert K. DeArment has earned a reputation as the premier researcher of unknown gunfighters, and here he offers twelve more portraits of men who weren't glorified in legend but …
Rough Ride to Redemption
The Ben Daniels Story
Av Robert K. DeArment, Jack DeMattos
Inbunden, 2010
366 kr
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He may be little known today, but Ben Daniels was a feared gunman who typified the journeyman gunfighter every bit as much as those whose names have become legend. Yet his story has eluded researchers and yarn-spinners alike - until now.Two prominent western historians have teamed up to tell the …
Assault on the Deadwood Stage
Road Agents and Shotgun Messengers
Inbunden, 2011
297 kr
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In the 1870s, Deadwood was a thriving - and largely lawless - boomtown. And as any fan of western history and films knows, stagecoach robberies were a regular feature of life in this fabled region of Dakota Territory. Now, for the first time, Robert K. DeArment tells the story of the ""good guys …
Gunfighter in Gotham
Bat Masterson's New York City Years
Häftad, 2016
261 kr
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The legend of Bat Masterson as the heroic sheriff of Dodge City, Kansas, began in 1881 when an acquaintance duped a New York Sun reporter into writing Masterson up as a man-killing gunfighter. That he later moved to New York City to write a widely followed sports column for eighteen years is one of …
Man-Hunters of the Old West
Inbunden, 2017
363 kr
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Settlers in the frontier West were often easy prey for criminals. Policing efforts were scattered at best and often amounted to vigilante retaliation. To create a semblance of order, freelance enforcers of the law known as man-hunters undertook the search for fugitives. These pursuers have often …
Man-Hunters of the Old West, Volume 2
Inbunden, 2018
363 kr
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Until the early twentieth century, life in the American West could be rough and sometimes vicious. Those who brought thieves and murderers to justice at times had to employ tactics as ruthless as their prey. In this follow-up to his first collection of biographies of the West's most recognized …
Deadly Dozen
Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, Vol. 2
Häftad, 2021
249 kr
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Think gunfighter, and Wyatt Earp or Billy the Kid may come to mind, but what of Jim Moon? Joel Fowler? Zack Light? A host of other figures helped forge the gunfighter persona, but their stories have been lost to time. In a sequel to his Deadly Dozen, celebrated western historian Robert K. DeArment …
Deadly Dozen
Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, Vol. 3
Häftad, 2023
274 kr
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For every Wild Bill Hickok or Billy the Kid, there was another western gunfighter just as deadly but not as well known. Robert K. DeArment has earned a reputation as the premier researcher of unknown gunfighters, and here he offers twelve more portraits of men who weren’t glorified in legend but …
Ballots and Bullets
The Bloody County Seat Wars of Kansas
Häftad, 2023
254 kr
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Bleeding Kansas" has earned its name. A state already scarred from the violence wrought by the likes of John Brown and William Quantrill, Kansas witnessed further episodes of wanton bloodshed in the late nineteenth century when settlers poured into a supposedly peaceful frontier.Focusing on the …
Assault on the Deadwood Stage
Road Agents and Shotgun Messengers
Häftad, 2025
261 kr
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In the 1870s, Deadwood was a thriving - and largely lawless - boomtown. And as any fan of western history and films knows, stagecoach robberies were a regular feature of life in this fabled region of Dakota Territory. Now, for the first time, Robert K. DeArment tells the story of the " good guys …
Rough Ride to Redemption
The Ben Daniels Story
Av Robert K. DeArment, Jack DeMattos
Häftad, 2024
291 kr
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He may be little known today, but Ben Daniels was a feared gunman who typified the journeyman gunfighter every bit as much as those whose names have become legend. Yet his story has eluded researchers and yarn-spinners alike—until now.Two prominent western historians have teamed up to tell the …
Jim Courtright of Fort Worth
His Life and Legend
Inbunden, 2004
304 kr
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Timothy Isaiah "Longhair Jim" Courtright operated on both sides of the law and became a legend in his lifetime and after his death. One of the most colorful characters from the wild and woolly days of Fort Worth's Hell's Half Acre, Courtright was at various times city marshal, deputy sheriff, …
Life of the Marlows
A True Story of Frontier Life of Early Days
Av William Rathmell, Robert K. DeArment
Häftad, 2008
229 kr
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This 1892 account of the five Marlow brothers and their tribulations in Young County, Texas, is now back in print and expertly edited and annotated by noted western historian Robert K. DeArment. After one Marlow brother killed a popular sheriff and was in turn murdered by bounty hunters, the other …
