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Author : Nancy Coggeshall
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,89 MB
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826348254
The compelling biography of a unique western rancher constantly adjusting to the inroads of modernity into his traditional way of life.
Author : Nancy Coggeshall
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,79 MB
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826348262
If there was ever a "ring-tailed roarer" of the backwoods of New Mexico, he was Quentin Hulse (1926-2002). Hulse lived and worked most of his life at the bottom of Canyon Creek in the Gila River country of southwestern New Mexico, but his reputation spread far and wide. His western image appeared on a tourist postcard and souvenir license plate in the 1950s. Footage of a lion hunt led by Hulse and his hounds appeared on the Men's Channel in 2005, three years after his passing. Hulse grew up primarily in western New Mexico when that ranch and mining country was still remote and raw. At the age of ten he witnessed a point-blank shooting, the culmination of an old-fashioned frontier feud. He followed his parents between mines and towns until his father established a ranch at Canyon Creek. While serving in the navy during World War II, he landed on the bloody beach at Okinawa. After returning from the war, he was shot in a bar near Silver City during a night of carousing. Hulse was most at home in the rugged Gila Wilderness, in which he ranched and guided for fifty years. With compassion and nuance, Nancy Coggeshall tells the compelling biography of a unique western rancher constantly adjusting to the inroads of modernity into his traditional way of life. Drawing on oral history, archival sources, and her personal association with Hulse and the Gila, she brings this unique westerner, and New Mexican, to life.
Author : Stanley Brown
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Page : pages
File Size : 19,11 MB
Release : 2022-02-10
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ISBN : 9781736542330
Historical vignettes of the Payson, Arizona Rimn Country
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Page : 368 pages
File Size : 24,80 MB
Release : 1997
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Page : 470 pages
File Size : 47,89 MB
Release : 1993
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Author : Larry D. Ball
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 46,23 MB
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806145196
Some of the legendary gunmen of the Old West were lawmen, but more, like Billy the Kid and Jesse James, were outlaws. Tom Horn (1860–1903) was both. Lawman, soldier, hired gunman, detective, outlaw, and assassin, this darkly enigmatic figure has fascinated Americans ever since his death by hanging the day before his forty-third birthday. In this masterful historical biography, Larry Ball, a distinguished historian of western lawmen and outlaws, presents the definitive account of Horn’s career. Horn became a civilian in the Apache wars when he was still in his early twenties. He fought in the last major battle with the Apaches on U.S. soil and chased the Indians into Mexico with General George Crook. He bragged about murdering renegades, and the brutality of his approach to law and order foreshadows his controversial career as a Pinkerton detective and his trial for murder in Wyoming. Having worked as a hired gun and a range detective in the years after the Johnson County War, he was eventually tried and hanged for killing a fourteen-year-old boy. Horn’s guilt is still debated. To an extent no previous scholar has managed to achieve, Ball distinguishes the truth about Horn from the numerous legends. Both the facts and their distortions are revealing, especially since so many of the untruths come from Horn’s own autobiography. As a teller of tall tales, Horn burnished his own reputation throughout his life. In spite of his services as a civilian scout and packer, his behavior frightened even his lawless companions. Although some writers have tried to elevate him to the top rung of frontier gun wielders, questions still shadow Horn’s reputation. Ball’s study concludes with a survey of Horn as described by historians, novelists, and screenwriters since his own time. These portrayals, as mixed as the facts on which they are based, show a continuing fascination with the life and legend of Tom Horn.
Author : Gerald Weathers
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 15,76 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Uranium ores
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Author : James Frank Dobie
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,94 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Folklore
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"Proceedings of the 9th annual meeting (1923) of the Texas folk-lore societyP : p. [263]-268. Bibliography of Texas legends.
Author : Michael Jay Katz
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 28,14 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472065585
A collection of stories about Ohio including "The Zanesville earthquakes," "Rattlesnake mound," "The Corpse that wouldn't bleed," and "The headless horseman of Cherry Hill.".
Author : Sam Lowe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 25,79 MB
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1493023055
Arizona Myths and Legends explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Arizona’s history, like the story of Pearl Hart or the ghosts that live in the Hotel Vendome. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the book is lively and easy to read for a general audience interested in Arizona history.