Bad company and burnt powder
Subtitle: justice and injustice in the Old Southwest
By: Bob Alexander
Series: Number 13 in the Frances B. Vick series
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Denton, Texas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9781574415667; 9781574415803
Subjects: History; Crime; Law enforcement; Frontier and pioneer life
Description: This book is a collection of twelve stories of when things turned "western" in the nineteenth-century Southwest. Each chapter deals with a different character or episode in the Wild West involving various lawmen, Texas Rangers, outlaws, feudists, vigilantes, lawyers, and judges.--Adapted from the ECIP Data View Summary.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 422-439) and index.
Table of contents: title: Bullets at Bullhead Mountain; title: A modern Hercules to the rescue; title: Murders and madness at Millican; title: Shooting him with pistols and guns; title: Has a wolfish look, Is bold to recklessness; title: Son, don't take your guns to town; title: The plum was ripening fast; title: Six-shooters, sermons, and sour mash; title: I'm shot all to pieces, everything quiet; title: Most feared gangster of the time; title: Good man, bad boy, big gun; title: Distractions of frontier life.