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Frontier terror : murder, lynching, and vigilantes in the Old West
Title
Frontier terror : murder, lynching, and vigilantes in the Old West / Michael Rutter.
ISBN
9781493067725
1493067729
9781493067732
Publication
Essex, Connecticut : TwoDot, [2023]
Physical Description
vii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary
"Author Michael Rutter examines the growing pains of the American West through the lens of vigilantes, outlaws, mob violence, and lynchings that occurred between 1840 and 1920, proving that oftentimes our country's democratic progress comes at the cost of physical violence"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Murder, lynching, and vigilantes in the Old West
Other formats
Online version: Rutter, Michael, 1953- Frontier terror Essex, Connecticut : TwoDot, [2023]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 31, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
East Texas Regulator-Moderator War : The Bloodiest Range Feud in Texas History
Joseph Smith : An American Prophet Murdered by an American Mob
John Glanton, Scalp Hunter : The Glanton Gang Terrorizes Northern Mexico
San Francisco Sex Trafficking is Another Gold Rush
The Mountain Meadows Massacre : Arkansas Wagon Train Murdered by Mormon Militia
The Montana Vigilantes : Montana Gold Miners Take the Law into Their Hands
A Wicked Town at Trail's End : The Mythic vs. Real Dodge City, Kansas
The Texas Tin Hat Brigade : Maybe the Bloodiest Vigilante Group in the West
Los Angeles Vigilantes Massacre Chinese : Nineteen Men Hanged in Racial Attack
Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War : The Regulators Fight "The House" in a Range War Nobody One
Ellen "Cattle Kate" Watson : Hung by Wyoming Ranchers Who Wanted Her Land
Teddy Roosevelt : "That Damned Cowboy" Was a Bully Buster President
Elizabeth Potts : Murderess Dismembers Her Victim and is the First Woman Hung in Nevada
The Johnson County War : Wyoming Cattle Barons Hire Texas Gunmen to Kill Homesteaders
Three Dakota Indians Lynched : An Irate Mob Avenges the Spicer Family Killers
Brown's Park : Range War for a Mountain Valley on the Utah-Colorado Border
Tom Horn : "Killing Men is My Specialty...It's a Business Proposition"
Jesse Washington : Convicted of Murder and Lynched in the Town Square
Texas Rangers : Sometimes an Instrument of Ethnic Cleansing.
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