Life of the Marlows
Subtitle: a true story of frontier life of early days
By: revised by William Rathmell ; edited, with an introduction and annotations by Robert K. DeArmen.
Contributors: DeArment, Robert K., 1925-
Series: A.C. Greene series ;; no. 3
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Denton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Marlow family.; Murder -- Texas -- Young County -- History -- 19th century.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas -- Young County.; Young County (Tex.) -- History.
Description: "The story of the five Marlow brothers and their tribulations in late nineteenth-century Texas is the stuff of Old West legend (and served to inspire the John Wayne movie, The Sons of Katie Elder). Violent, full of intrigue, with characters of amazing heroism and deplorable cowardice, their story was first related by William Rathmell in Life of the Marlows, a little book published in 1892, shortly after the events it described in Young County, Texas." "It told how Boone, the most reckless of the brothers, shot and killed a popular sheriff and escaped, only to be murdered later by bounty hunters. The other four brothers, arrested as accessories and jailed, made a daring break from confinement but were recaptured. Once back in their cells, they were forced to fight off a mob intent on lynching them. Later, shackled together, the Marlows were placed on wagons by officers late at night, bound for another town, but they were ambushed by angry citizens. In the resulting battle two of the brothers were shot and killed, the other two severely wounded, and three mob members died. The surviving brothers eventually were exonerated, but members of the mob that had attacked them were prosecuted in cases that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-193) and index.