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Hell holes and hangings /

"The Territorial prisons and penitentiaries were meant to be just a little tougher than the meanest outlaw the devil ever made -- and they were. This is the story of a selected few of these prisons, and of the taut, life-and-death dramas often played out within the shadows of their brooding wal...

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Main Author:	Harrison, Fred, 1917-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Clarendon, Tex. : Clarendon Press, 1968.
Subjects:	Prisons > West (U.S.) West (U.S.) > History. États-Unis (Ouest) > Histoire. Prisons. West United States. Printed books > 20th century > United States > Texas > Quanah > Specimens. History.

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