[PDF] A Lawless Breed eBook

Author : Chuck Parsons
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 43,56 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574415050

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John Wesley Hardin spread terror in much of Texas in the years following the Civil War as the most wanted fugitive. Hardin left an autobiography in which he detailed many of the troubles of his life. In A Lawless Breed, Parsons and Brown have meticulously examined his claims against available records to determine how much of his life story is true, and how much was only a half truth, or a complete lie.

Author : T. A. Mort
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 36,67 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786016211

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From a bold new voice in western adventure comes this rousing tale of a former Union Navy officer and trained killer who faces a murderous Navajo and encounters other deadly dangers while he pursues a band of killer stagecoach robbers. Original.

Author : Chuck Parsons
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574412574

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History, Rangers, Quarrels, Trials.

Author : Chuck Parsons
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 14,49 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574417266

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In Captain Jack Helm, Chuck Parsons explores the life of John Jackson “Jack” Helm, whose main claim to fame has been that he was a victim of man-killer John Wesley Hardin. That he was, but he was much more in his violence-filled lifetime during Reconstruction Texas. First as a deputy sheriff, then county sheriff, and finally captain of the notorious Texas State Police, he developed a reputation as a violent and ruthless man-hunter. He arrested many suspected lawbreakers, but often his prisoner was killed before reaching a jail for “attempting to escape.” This horrific tendency ultimately brought about his downfall. Helm’s aggressive enforcement of his version of “law and order” resulted in a deadly confrontation with two of his enemies in the midst of the Sutton-Taylor Feud. “Captain Jack Helm is more than a fine gunfighter biography: it is a vivid statement about the murderous violence of Reconstruction in Texas.”—Bill O’Neal, State Historian of Texas

Author : Nora Roberts
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 35,25 MB
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250775477

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A historical romance set in America’s Old West, Lawless is “a novel by Jackie MacNamara,” the book written by the character in #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts’ Loving Jack. In the late 1800s, the Arizona Territory was an unsettled, wild frontier traversed by the likes of Jake Redman. Prejudiced against for his partial Apache parentage, the gunslinger had little patience for the civility practiced by Sarah Conway. Yet she brought more than polite manners from her east coast city society, possessing a strength of character needed to make the western town of Lone Bluff her home—and an enticing, fiery passion as dangerous to Jake as anything he ever faced with a six-gun.

Author : Chuck Parsons
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 23,93 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1603444963

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As Elmer Kelton notes in his afterword to this book, "Chuck Parsons' biography is a long-delayed and much-justified tribute to Armstrong's service to Texas." Parsons fills in the missing details of a Ranger and rancher's life, correcting some common misconceptions and adding to the record of a legendary group of lawmen and pioneers.

Author : Ralph Hayes
Publisher : Robert Hale Ltd
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 14,84 MB
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0719822351

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When Wesley Sumner is released from prison, he and cellmate Corey Madison go in search of work as ranch hands. But their new-found freedom is short-lived when they are arrested for a crime they did not commit. And when Corey dies after a savage beating from their captors, Sumner vows revenge. However, his plans are thwarted when he learns that the two deputies who beat Corey have lost their jobs and are now themselves on the run from the law. And so begins a long hard journey, fraught with danger, as slowly but surely Sumner tracks down his friend's killers.

Author : John Wesley Hardin
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 28,96 MB
Release : 2018-05-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1387808605

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John Wesley Hardin was the only Wild West outlaw to write his autobiography. This new 2018 edition of his prison-penned memoirs includes an introduction and footnotes by author and translator Damian Stevenson ('On the Shortness of Life') which help shed light on this most enigmatic of Old West legends.

Author : Leon Claire Metz
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 15,74 MB
Release : 1998-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806129952

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Thus spoke one lawman about John Wesley Hardin, easily the most feared and fearless of all the gunfighters in the West. Nobody knows the exact number of his victims-perhaps as few as twenty or as many as fifty. In his way of thinking, Hardin never shot a man who did not deserve it. Seeking to gain insight into Hardin’s homicidal mind, Leon Metz describes how Hardin’s bloody career began in post-Civil War Central Texas, when lawlessness and killings were commonplace, and traces his life of violence until his capture and imprisonment in 1878. After numerous unsuccessful escape attempts, Hardin settled down and received a pardon years later in 1895. He wrote an autobiography but did not live to see it published. Within a few months of his release, John Selman gunned him down in an El Paso saloon.

Author : Chuck Parsons
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738579825

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The Texas Rangers. The words evoke exciting images of daring, courage, high adventure. The Rangers began as a handful of men protecting their homes from savage raiding parties; now in their third century of existence, they are a highly sophisticated crime-fighting organization. Yet at times even today the Texas Ranger mounts his horse to track fugitives through dense chaparral, depending on his wits more than technology. The iconic image of the Texas Ranger is of a man who is tall, unflinching, and dedicated to doing a difficult job no matter what the odds. The Rangers of the 21st century are different sizes, colors, and genders, but remain as vital and real today as when they were created in the horseback days of 1823, when what is today Texas was part of Mexico, a wild and untamed land.