Getting Away With Murder on the Texas Frontier
Subtitle: Notorious Killings & Celebrated Trials
Contributors: Gordon Morris Bakken (Foreword)
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: October 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780896725799
Subjects: Trials (Murder); Sources; History; True Crime / Espionage; United States - State & Local - Southwest; History: American; Texas; Murder - General; Frontier and pioneer life; Criminal justice, Administration of
Description: "Longtime Texas prosecutor and defense attorney mines trial records and other primary sources to analyze murder trials from 1880 through WWI in West Texas and Oklahoma. Addresses not only legal and illegal ploys but also inherent pitfalls for a nascent criminal justice system in a frontier society. Historical photographs"--Provided by publisher.