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Author
Publisher
62-19354
Pub. Date
1962
Language
English
Description
Gunneson City Sheriff "Doc" Cyrus Wells Shores (1844-1934)-nicknamed after the doctor who delivered him in Hicksville, Detroit in 1844-became well-known as a Colorado lawman for bringing down local criminals without parading his authority or a display of guns. Born in the village of Hicksville, about thirty miles from Detroit, Michigan, "Doc" Shores moved to Montana as a young man via a steamer and paid passage by hunting game along the route. Prospecting...
Author
Publisher
TwoDot
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West's most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws, gamblers, soiled-doves, and other wicked women by offers a glimpse into Western Women's experience that's less sunbonnets and more six-shooters. Pulling together stories of ladies caught in the acts of mayhem, distraction, murder, and highway robbery, it will include famous names like Belle Starr and Big Nose Kate, as well as lesser-known...
9) Six-guns and saddle leather : a bibliography of books and pamphlets on Western outlaws and gunmen
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
1969
Language
English
Author
Series
Western frontier library volume 26
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Language
English
Publisher
Distributed by Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
This is the story of the West as it has never been told before, myth and legend stripped away and the truth revealed by 17 of the nation's top Western authorities. Learn the truth about Billy the Kid, Jesse James, the Sundance Kid, and many more.
Author
Publisher
61-14212
Pub. Date
1961
Language
English
Description
Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith was the slickest article that ever hit the West. He set up his tripod and suitcase on a Denver street corner in the 1880s and started his spiel. The "suckers" flocked around and got thoroughly taken. Everyone listened to Soapy and he began laying down his own brand of law, soon commanding a band of criminal characters whom he protected through his influence with politicians and policewomen on his payroll. He became...
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