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Author : Francis Stanley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Desperadoes of New Mexico written by Francis Stanley and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of seventeen outlaws in New Mexico in the 19th century.
Author : Barbara Marriott
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762783877
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)
Download or read book Outlaw Tales of New Mexico written by Barbara Marriott and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True stories of the Land of Enchantment's most infamous crooks, culprits, and cutthroats.
Author : Ann Lacy
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 086534633X
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (653 download)
Download or read book Outlaws & Desperados written by Ann Lacy and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1936 and 1940, field workers in the Federal Writers' Project collected many accounts that provide an authentic and vivid picture of the early days of New Mexico. This volume focuses on outlaws and desperados.
Author : Rafael Acosta Morales
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268200777
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (682 download)
Download or read book Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes written by Rafael Acosta Morales and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes examines how historical archetypes in violent narratives on the Mexican American frontier have resulted in political discourse that feeds back into real violence. The drug battles, outlaw culture, and violence that permeate the U.S.-Mexican frontier serve as scenery and motivation for a wide swath of North American culture. In this innovative study, Rafael Acosta Morales ties the pride that many communities felt for heroic tales of banditry and rebels to the darker repercussions of the violence inflicted by the representatives of the law or the state. Narratives on bandits, cowboys, and desperadoes promise redistribution, regeneration, and community, but they often bring about the very opposite of those goals. This paradox is at the heart of Acosta Morales’s book. Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes examines the relationship between affect, narrative, and violence surrounding three historical archetypes—social bandits (often associated with the drug trade), cowboys, and desperadoes—and how these narratives create affective loops that recreate violent structures in the Mexican American frontier. Acosta Morales analyzes narrative in literary, cinematic, and musical form, examining works by Américo Paredes, Luis G. Inclán, Clint Eastwood, Rolando Hinojosa, Yuri Herrera, and Cormac McCarthy. The book focuses on how narratives of Mexican social banditry become incorporated into the social order that bandits rose against and how representations of violence in the U.S. weaponize narratives of trauma in order to justify and expand the violence that cowboys commit. Finally, it explains the usage of universality under the law as a means of criminalizing minorities by reading the stories of Mexican American men who were turned into desperadoes by the criminal law system. Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes demonstrates how these stories led to recreated violence and criminalization of minorities, a conversation especially important during this time of recognizing social inequality and social injustices. The book is part of a growing body of scholarship that applies theoretical approaches to borderlands studies, and it will be of interest to students and scholars in American and Mexican history and literature, border studies, literary criticism, cultural criticism, and related fields.
Author : Robert K. DeArment
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806182652
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Deadly Dozen written by Robert K. DeArment and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think gunfighter, and Wyatt Earp or Billy the Kid may come to mind, but what of Jim Moon? Joel Fowler? Zack Light? A host of other figures helped forge the gunfighter persona, but their stories have been lost to time. In a sequel to his Deadly Dozen, celebrated western historian Robert K. DeArment now offers more biographical portraits of lesser-known gunfighters—men who perhaps weren’t glorified in legend or song, but who were rightfully notorious in their day. DeArment has tracked down stories of gunmen from throughout the West—characters you won’t find in any of today’s western history encyclopedias but whose careers are colorfully described here. Photos of the men and telling quotations from primary sources make these characters come alive. In giving these men their due, DeArment takes readers back to the gunfighter culture spawned in part by the upheavals of the Civil War, to a time when deadly duels were part of the social fabric of frontier towns and the Code of the West was real. His vignettes offer telling insights into conditions on the frontier that created the gunfighters of legend. These overlooked shooters never won national headlines but made their own contributions to the blood and thunder of the Old West: people less than legends, but all the more fascinating because they were real. Readers who enjoyed DeArment’s Deadly Dozen will find this book equally captivating—as gripping as a showdown, twelve times over.
Author : Dan L. Thrapp
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803294202
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (942 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: P-Z written by Dan L. Thrapp and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1991-06-01 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes biographical information on 4,500 individuals associated with the frontier
Author : John Marriott
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426969333
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Desperado’S Woman written by John Marriott and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after the end of war with Mexico, Kathleen Adams disgraces her family when she travels west to the New Mexico territory to teach school. In the midst of her travels, the notorious desperado Black Bart holds up her stage and unexpectedly steals something very personal from hera kiss. With that kiss, their bond is forever sealed. As they become inseparable and their lives inextricably intertwined, they realize they are meant to be together. They attend a Mexican fiesta in the nearby settlement of San Pedro and visit an infamous gambling hole called El Diablo. Meanwhile, she has aroused the suspicion of Hiram Brown, the town banker, who was also on the stage when it was intercepted by Black Bart. Kathleen has also befriended Brigitte, the Swedish lady who runs the boarding house where she gets her meals and in whom she feels she can confide. Suspecting that the banker has a plan in place to take Bart down, Kathleen tries to warn the desperado before it happens. Now that she has left behind a quiet existence for the excitement of the Wild West and found the love of her life, will she get to him in timeor lose him forever?
Author : Emerson Hough
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Story of the Outlaw written by Emerson Hough and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With historical narratives of famous outlaws ; the stories of noted border wars, vigilante movements and armed conflicts on the frontier.
Author : Elaine Shannon
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 149177598X
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)
Download or read book Desperados written by Elaine Shannon and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: READ THE CAMARENA STORY AND FIND OUT WHY THE DRUG TRADE IS KILLING US. Desperados takes you to the front line of the drug wars. You'll come face to face to with: Swaggering, flamboyant drug lords who rule over immense empires; Federal police and government officials who are silent partners in the vicious drug trade; A CIA locked in a unholy relationship with the Mexican security police; The Regan administration's duplicitous and ambivalent fight against narcotics. In Desperados you'll learn firsthand about the isolation, vulnerability, and courage of DEA agents in Latin America. And you'll witness the harrowing murder of Enrique ("Kiki") Camarena, a dedicated agent who tried, against all odds, to secure one victory in this endless war. "A breathtaking, behind-the-scenes look at one of the major problems of our time" The San Diego Tribune "Fast-paced and meticulously documented...reads like a thriller." The Village Voice
Author : Ralph Emerson Twitchell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Old Santa Fe; the Story of New Mexico's Ancient Capital written by Ralph Emerson Twitchell and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Noble Burns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book The Saga of Billy the Kid written by Walter Noble Burns and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Ritter
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440699224
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Desperado Who Stole Baseball written by John Ritter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exciting prequel to the bestselling The Boy Who Saved Baseball The fate of a Wild West gold-mining town rests in the hands of two individuals. One is a twelve-year-old boy with a love and instinct for baseball unmatched by any grown-up. The other is the country's most infamous outlaw, on the run and looking for peace of mind. Together, they pair up to prove that heroes can emerge from anywhere. John H. Ritter brings the Old West to life in this prequel to his breakout success, The Boy Who Saved Baseball.
Author : Richard W. Etulain
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806168056
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Thunder in the West written by Richard W. Etulain and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even before he was shot and killed in 1881, Billy the Kid’s charisma and murderous career were generating stories that belied his brief life—and that only multiplied, growing to legendary proportions after his death at age twenty-one. In Thunder in the West, Richard W. Etulain takes the true measure of Billy, the man and the legend, and presents the clearest picture yet of his life and his ever-shifting place and presence in the cultural landscape of the Old West. Billy the Kid—born Henry McCarty in 1859, and also known as William H. Bonney—emerges from these pages in all his complexity, at once a gentleman and gregarious companion, and a thief and violent murderer. Tapping new depths of research, Etulain traces Billy’s short life from his mysterious origins in the East through his wanderings in New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. As we move from his peripatetic early years through the wild West to his fatal involvement in the Lincoln County Wars, we see the impressionable boy give way to the conflicted young man and, finally, to the opportunistic and often amoral outlaw who was out for himself, for revenge, and for whatever he could steal along the way. Against this deftly drawn portrait, Etulain considers the stories and myths spawned by Billy’s life and death. Beginning with the dime novels featuring Billy the Kid, even during his lifetime, and ranging across the myriad newspaper accounts, novels, and movies that alternately celebrated his outlaw life and condemned his exploits, Etulain offers a uniquely informed view of the changing interpretations that have shaped and reshaped the reputation of this enduring icon of the Old West. In his portrayal, Billy the Kid lives on, not as a cut-throat desperado or a young charmer but as both—hero and villain, myth and man, fully realized in this twenty-first-century interpretation.
Author : Baxter Black
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762769149
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)
Download or read book Lessons from a Desperado Poet written by Baxter Black and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part memoir, part how-to, all Baxter Black, Lessons from a Desperado Poet is a humorous, witty take on making a living by doing the right thing and trying everything. According to Baxter Black, success “does not require a genius; it just requires the persistence of a glacier. Remember, often it’s not ability that gets you ahead, it’s reliability. The world is run by those who show up.” Lessons from a Desperado Poet leaves a trail of self-improvement and motivational tortilla crumbs that readers will follow with delight—before, that is, squirreling them away in their own cerebral pockets for later use.
Author : Laurie Grant
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1459261240
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (592 download)
Download or read book THE DUCHESS AND THE DESPERADO written by Laurie Grant and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morgan Calhoun Was A Wanted Man Morgan knew he would someday prove his innocence, but for now Sarah Challoner needed his protection, and he was determined to guard her with his life…even if it meant loosing both his freedom…and his heart! Sarah's lofty title had proven to be of little use in the rugged lawlessness of the American West, and when exrancher Morgan Calhoun offered her his help, she could only hope that her faith in the desperate man was not a mistake she would later regret!
Author : Max Austin
Publisher : Alibi
ISBN 13 : 0553390325
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (533 download)
Download or read book Duke City Desperado written by Max Austin and published by Alibi. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul comes Max Austin’s latest fast-paced, rollicking Lawbreakers Thriller, a short novel of criminals and lovers, malcontents and madmen—all within the treacherous city limits of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Under a sky full of stars, Dylan James lies sleeping on the roof of a pueblo-style house. He’s a fugitive, and everyone in Albuquerque seems to be looking for him. A murderous Mafia prince wants to kill him. Two FBI agents want to cuff him. A Goth girl wants to make love to him. And a fierce, sexy Chicana just wants to clean up the mess Dylan made. The trouble started with a drug-addled career criminal named Doc and a bank robbery staged with a garage door opener. Then it all goes off the rails after a little misunderstanding with Dylan’s ex-girlfriend and her jealous, gun-toting new beau. When the sun comes up, this sleepy, scrawny desperado is going to show the world what he’s made of—all for a one-in-a-million shot at walking out of Duke City alive. Advance praise for Duke City Desperado “Duke City Desperado is more fun than a barrel of heavily medicated monkeys. The crime caper novel is not dead, but in the capable hands of Max Austin it takes on a whole new twist. Two inept criminals equal one good time for the reader.”—Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Day Shift and the novels that inspired True Blood “Duke City Desperado is a page-burner of tart dialogue and breakneck pacing. In lesser hands, this twisty plot could have gone off the rails, but it works because author Max Austin knows it’s all about simple, human relationships, especially the off-kilter relationship at the core of the story.”—Bill Fitzhugh, Lefty Award–winning author of The Exterminators “With Duke City Desperado, Max Austin again proves to be grand master of the laugh-out-loud noir crime novel. Doc Burnett (“Bank robbery ain’t a matter of brains.”) and his hapless disciple, Dylan, lead readers on a madcap spree that transforms ineptitude into a survival skill.”—Charlie Price, Edgar Award–winning author of Dead Girl Moon
Author : Thomas Allibone Janvier
Publisher : New York, Harper & brothers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Uncle of an Angel written by Thomas Allibone Janvier and published by New York, Harper & brothers. This book was released on 1891 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
