[PDF] Texas Gunslingers eBook

Author : Bill O'Neal
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 36,2 MB
Release : 2014-12-08
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1439648921

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Images of America: Texas Gunslingers presents the concept of Texas as the Gunfighter Capital of the West. Indeed, after the cowboya Texas creationthe most colorful and romanticized frontier figure is the gunfighter. Nothing is more dramatic than life and death conflict, and the image of men in big hats and boots brandishing six-shooters and Winchesters has been portrayed in countless Western novels, movies, and television shows. Texas made an enormous contribution to gunfighter lore. Texas Rangers were responsible for the evolution of Sam Colts revolving pistol, key weapon of gunfighters. More shoot-outs occurred in Texas than in any other state or territory. More gunfighters were from Texas, including kill-crazy Wes Hardin and Killin Jim Miller, the Wests premier assassin. There were more blood feuds in Texas than in any other state. Frequently, gunplay erupted in towns such as Tascosa, El Paso, Fort Worth, and Lampasas, where four lawmen were killed in an 1873 saloon battle.

Author : John F. Wukovits
Publisher : Facts On File
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 23,7 MB
Release : 1996-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780791038727

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Describes the exploits of some of the men in the Old West, including John Wesley Hardin, Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday, and James Butler Hickok, who earned reputations for being deadly with a gun.

Author : John Layne
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,78 MB
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645310792

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Joel Thornton is a retired US deputy marshal now living a quiet rancher's life outside the Texas town named in his honor. Days after welcoming his daughter, Elizabeth, home after seven years back east in Philadelphia, an old fugitive attacks the Tilted T Ranch seeking revenge and Thornton's cattle. Wounded in the ensuing gunfight, Thornton calls upon his daughter to find his old partner, former US Deputy Marshal Ben Chance, informing her, "Chance will know what to do." The young woman's journey leads her on an adventure that exposes her to the dangers of the Old West, including an Indian attack on her stagecoach, where a mysterious gunslinger emerges from the hills and saves the coach. Enchanted by Elizabeth and her quest, the gunslinger joins her in the search for her father's former partner, who unbeknownst to them has been wounded in a gunfight, having been saved by a young brash gunslinger on a secret mission of his own. Together, the two young gunslingers join the aged former Marshal Chance in the hunt for the outlaws who shot Elizabeth's father and stole his herd.

Author : Bill O'Neal
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 26,34 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780806123356

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Sifting factual information from among the lies, legends, and tall tales, the lives and battles of gunfighters on both sides of the law are presented in a who's who of the violent West

Author : Colonel Charles Askins
Publisher : Paladin Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,32 MB
Release : 2007-07-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781581606133

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The early Texans were a breed apart. Outlaws and lawmen, ranchers and cowpokes, merchants and preachers, housewives and harlots - all were hard-working, independent, tough people of the frontier. In The Gunfighters, legendary U.S. Border Patrol agent, pistol shooter and big-game hunter Colonel Charles Askins brings hundreds of the colorful characters of early Texas vividly to life--McNelly's Rangers; "The Merry Outlaw" Sam Bass; Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker and the Texas Ranger who caught them, Captain Frank Hamer; the first Border Patrolmen; Comanche and Apache Indians; and many others.

Author : Richard Slotkin
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 30,24 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806130316

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Examines the ways in which the frontier myth influences American culture and politics, drawing on fiction, western films, and political writing

Author : Laurence J. Yadon
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Crime
ISBN : 9781589805149

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Beginning with Texas's declaration of independence in 1835 and stretching into the turbulent Depression era a century later, many ruthless criminals and daring deputies and rangers kicked up dust within the state's borders. Billy the Kid, Machine Gun Kelly, Bat Masterson, and Belle Star were familiar faces. Other characters included Texas Jack, Rowdy Joe, Mysterious Dave, Long Haired Jim, Buckskin Frank, and Curly Bill. In this book, accounts of gunfights, robberies, and kidnappings follow selected profiles. In a borrowed costume, Marshal Ratliff, the Santa Claus Robber, held up cashiers while several of his "elves" pulled weapons to help St. Nick fill his sack. Mishaps, accidents, and misunderstandings lighten the mood between truly heinous crimes such as that of the Bender family. Owners of a small hotel, the four family members would kill lone travelers for their possessions. While pursuing his undergraduate degree at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma, Laurence Yadon considered himself fortunate to have studied under William Settle, a Jesse James scholar. This experience served as his inspiration to become a lifelong student of American history, especially that of the Southwest. Dan Anderson is a former newswriter, photographer, features writer, and columnist. He has been honored with multiple awards from the Associated Press for spot news reporting, investigative reporting, and newswriting. Anderson and Yadon are also the authors of 100 Oklahoma Outlaws, Gangsters, and Lawmen: 1839-1939, published by Pelican.

Author : Doran M Ellis
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,57 MB
Release : 2023-03-27
Category :
ISBN :

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Sue is a western short story, placed between the Rocky mountains and Texas. This book is of a lone Gunslinger who never knew his father and had to grow rough and rugged, for his name never to be taken lightly. Instead he became a respected and fear gunslinger throughout Texas and one for justice. I do hope this book will be received well, in the hope for more, with different genres. Thank you kindly readers and enjoy.

Author : Buck Rainey
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,70 MB
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476603286

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Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Hickok, Belle Starr, Wyatt Earp, the Younger Gang, the Dalton-Doolin Gang and Bat Masterson--these real-life lawmen and lawbreakers have been the basis of so many Hollywood Westerns that it has become difficult to discover where the truth ends and the legend begins. All actually became larger-than-life characters during their lifetimes, as contemporary newspapers and books embellished their deeds for their own purposes. But it was in Hollywood that the line between reality and myth was completely blurred. Each chapter-length entry here first focuses on the known facts of the people's lives and how each became truly legendary during their lifetimes. The reality is then compared to how they have been portrayed in the movies.