Bad Company and Burnt Powder - Justice and Injustice in the Old Southwest

This book is a portrait of twelve lawmen or criminals or of famous events in the American Southwest in the late 1800s to the early 1900s. The events take place in Arizona Territory, Texas, or New Mexico Territory.--Adapted from the ECIP Data View Summary.

About the author

BOB ALEXANDER began a policing career in 1965 and retired as a special agent with the US Treasury Department. He is the author of Rawhide Ranger, Ira Aten (winner of WWHA Best Book Award); Riding Lucifer's Line: Ranger Deaths along the Texas-Mexico Border; and Winchester Warriors: Texas Rangers of Company D, 1874-1901, all published by UNT Press. He lives in Maypearl, Texas.

Summary

This is a collection of twelve stories of when things turned “Western” in the nineteenth-century US 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.

Product details

• Authors: Bob Alexander
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.07.2014
• EAN: 9781574415667
• ISBN: 978-1-57441-566-7
• No. of pages: 456
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Frances B. Vick; Frances B. Vick Series; Frances B. Vick; Frances B. Vick Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous