When outlaws wore badges
by Groves, Melody
Published by : TwoDot (Guilford, Connecticut) Physical details: viii, 155 pages illustrations 22 cm ISBN:9781493048038; 1493048031.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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| sw 900 - 999 | 978.02 Gro (Browse shelf) | Available | unassigned | 111187 |
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| 978.02 Gho Ghosts of the West | 978.02 Gla It happened on the Santa Fe Trail / | 978.02 Gri Passing of the Great West | 978.02 Gro When outlaws wore badges | 978.02 Gui Kit Carson | 978.02 Hys The Old West / | 978.02 Liu Barbed wire |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-153).
"At times, the black-hatted "villains" and white-hatted "good guys" of the Old West were one and the same. Often it was difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish who was who. Sheriff Wyatt Earp stole horses and ran brothels. Albuquerque's first town marshal, Milton Yarberry, was accused of murder and subsequently "jerked to Jesus." Burt Alvord, town marshal of Willcox, Arizona, and friends, robbed a train. Alvord then deputized these same friends into a posse to apprehend the robbers. It came as no surprise when his posse came up empty handed. Justice Hoodoo Brown and Deputy JJ Webb ruled Las Vegas as leaders of the Dodge City Gang until they were run out of town by citizens fed up with their type of justice. "Mysterious" Dave Mather and even two of the Dalton Gang spent time behind a badge, as well as behind bars."--Amazon.com
Lawman or outlaw? Black-hatted "villains" and white-hatted "good guys" of the Old West walk the streets of our imagination. Hollywood draws a convenient line in the Western dirt, differentiating between the two. But in reality, at times it was difficult, if not impossible to distinguish who was who. Shadowy faces roamed the West. When Outlaws Wore Badges explores the world of lawman and outlaw wrapped into one person. At times the badge speaks, other times--the gun. Living in the Old West was not easy. Often, law and justice were left behind in the east, when men migrated to the open lands of the West. Some men took advantage of fluid regulations while others found themselves helping to invent and enforce law and order. A few men did both
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