Frontier justice in the wild west
Subtitle: bungled, bizarre and fascinating executions
By: R. Michael Wilson
Publisher: TWODOT; TwoDot
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Guilford, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9780762743896
Subjects: Executions and executioners; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-165) and index.
Table of contents: title: Frenchman hanged for murdering a 'lady', April 24, 1868; title: Moore and his gang lynched in Laramie, October 18, 1868; title: Escaped convicts meet their fate, September 27, 1871; title: 'Buffalo Curly' assassinates 'WIld Bill', March 1, 1877; title: John D. Lee pays for the Mountain Meadows Massacre, March 23, 1877; title: The pickled parrot, March 22, 1881; title: The Pond brothers lynched by vigilantes, May 23, 1881; title: Gilbert and Rosengrants hanged by double 'twitch-up' gallows, July 29, 1881; title: One lynched and five hanged for the Bisbee Massacre, March 28, 1884; title: Poor Andy! From slave to grave, July 27, 1886; title: First woman hanged in Nevada, June 20, 1890; title: Enoch Davis dies by firing squad, September 14, 1894; title: Wife murderer Charles H. Thiede hanged, August 7, 1896; title: Parker punished for the Jailbreak Murder, June 10, 1898; title: A hanging done right, June 24, 1898; title: Beheaded by the noose, April 25, 1901; title: The last hanging in Prescott, Arizona, July 31, 1903; title: The hanging of an innocent man? November 20, 1903.