With badges & bullets : lawmen & outlaws in the Old West /
Who are the lawmen and who are the outlaws? ... Was there, in fact, always a distinction between officers of the law and lawbreakers in the Old West?" These are the key questions that ten well-known historians puzzle over in their revealing portraits of such legendary frontier figures as Wyatt...
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| Language: | English |
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Golden, Colo. :
Fulcrum Pub.,
©1999.
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| Series: | Notable westerners.
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Table of Contents:
- Wyatt Earp : the search for order on the last frontier / Gary L. Roberts
- Wild Bill Hickok : living legend, dead hero, frontier icon / Joseph G. Rosa
- Patrick Floyd Garrett : the man who shot Billy the Kid / Kathleen P. Chamberlain
- Tom Horn : rogue frontiersman / Larry D. Ball
- Doc Holliday : vigilantism with honor / Gary Topping
- Joaquín Murrieta : the many lives of a legend / Richard Griswold del Castillo
- Billy the Kid : thunder in the West / Richard W. Etulain
- Belle Starr : queen of the bandits / Glenda Riley
- Jesse James : borderman / Elliott West
- Pearl Hart : desperate woman or desperado? / Shelley Armitage.