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Author : Bat Masterson
Publisher : Vistabooks
ISBN 13 : 9780896460874
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Famous Gun Fighters of the Western Frontier written by Bat Masterson and published by Vistabooks. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. B. (Bat) Masterson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486131319
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier written by W. B. (Bat) Masterson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bat Masterson's illustrated biographies of legendary gunslingers Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Luke Short, Bill Tilghman, Ben Thompson, and others paint a vivid portrait of the Old West, a world of sharpshooters, cattle rustlers, and Dodge City justice.
Author : W. B. (Bat) Masterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781420971781
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (717 download)
Download or read book Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier written by W. B. (Bat) Masterson and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1907 as a series of articles in "Human Life" magazine, "Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier" is the fascinating first-hand account of these famous Americans by Bat Masterson. Born Bartholemew William Barclay Masterson in Canada in 1853, Bat Masterson led an amazing life as a U.S. Army scout, professional gambler, and lawman in the American Old West. He went to find adventure in the frontier as a young man and soon earned distinction as a buffalo hunter. He eventually spent time as the sheriff in Dodge City, Kansas and was involved in several well-known shootouts. It was during these times that Masterson met some of the most important gunslingers in history. These accounts, written decades after Masterson moved back to civilization and worked as a writer and journalist, tell the incredible stories of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Ben Thompson, Luke Short, and Bill Tilghman. "Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier" remains an important historical document of five famous American gunfighters and a fascinating and entertaining account of the Wild West. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.
Author : Bat Masterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (978 download)
Download or read book Famous gunfighters of the Western frontier written by Bat Masterson and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill O'Neal
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806123356
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (233 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters written by Bill O'Neal and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Bad Men written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the lives of over 250 of the Old West's most notorious bad men, includes over 100 original paintings by the author, plus over 200 photos, many never before published.
Author : Roger D. McGrath
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520341732
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Gunfighters, Highwaymen, and Vigilantes written by Roger D. McGrath and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Preface:On the frontier, says conventional wisdom, a structured society did not exist and social control was largely absent; law enforcement and the criminal justice system had limited, if any, influence; and danger--both from man and from the elements--was ever present. This view of the frontier is projected by motion pictures, television, popular literature, and most scholarly histories. But was the frontier really all that violent? What was the nature of the violence that did occur? Were frontier towns more violent that cities in the East? Has America inherited a violent way of life from the frontier? Was the frontier more violent than the United States is today? This book attempts to answer these questions and others about violence and lawlessness on the frontier and do so in a new way. Whereas most authors have drawn their conclusions about frontier violence from the exploits of a few notorious badmen and outlaws and from some of the more famous incidents and conflicts, I have chosen to focus on two towns that I think were typical of the frontier--the mining frontier specifically--and to investigate all forms of violence and lawlessness that occurred in and around those towns.
Author : Joe Fasthorse Harrill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781593441517
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (415 download)
Download or read book Little Known Famous Gunfighters written by Joe Fasthorse Harrill and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of brief, historical depictions of little known players on the stage of the Old West, the high plains and the dusty roads east of the Mississippi. There are stories of ranchers, soldiers, saloon owners, former slaves, desperados and the lawmen who brought them to justice, a movie script writer and a horse breeder . Among these are Bud Ballew, Jim Masterson, Creed Taylor, the "Hanging Judge" Isaac Parker, Frances Kavanaugh and Henrietta King. Throw down a bedroll next to the fire, rest your head on your saddle and enjoy a good read.
Author : Bat Masterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The 75th Anniversary Edition of Famous Gun Fighters of the Western Frontier written by Bat Masterson and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William MacLeod Raine
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1616085428
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Famous Sheriffs and Western Outlaws written by William MacLeod Raine and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous Sheriffs and Western Outlaws is a classic for everyone interested in history and what is was like in the Old West. Get swept back to a time when sheriffs did their best to keep order in a lawless land. Read about the likes of Tom Horn, the "Apache Kid", "Bucky" O'Neill, Tom Nickson, and many more!
Author : Matt Braun
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1466816090
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Doc Holliday written by Matt Braun and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doc Holiday Matt Braun He came from the American South, a gentleman by breeding, a dentist by training, a gambler by vocation. But as Dr. John H. Holliday, a man fleeing his tragic past, drifted across the West, living among some of the roughest men on the frontier, word spread quickly he never walked away from a fight, and he never drew too late. Now, from Dodge City to Denver and Cheyenne, from boomtown to sinkholes, "Doc" Holliday was driven by the demons of his past, a skilled gambler and a seasoned mankiller--his name was known and feared long before the O.K. Corral. The story of a man who spoke softly and carried a lightning gun, Doc Holliday is Matt Braun's extraordinary chronicle of the West's most complex and legendary figure.
Author : Carl R. Green
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780766031746
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (317 download)
Download or read book Wyatt Earp written by Carl R. Green and published by Enslow Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out about the extraordinary life of Wyatt Earp, a well-known lawman of the Wild West.
Author : James A. Crutchfield
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765304506
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Way West written by James A. Crutchfield and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seasoned historian assembles a remarkable cadre of authors, who reveal forgotten, true stories of the American frontier.
Author : Al Cimino
Publisher : Chartwell Books
ISBN 13 : 0785833765
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (858 download)
Download or read book Gunfighters written by Al Cimino and published by Chartwell Books. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve into the world of the Wild West and the gunslingers that populated its dusty towns and saloons.
Author : Gary L. Roberts
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118130979
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)
Download or read book Doc Holliday written by Gary L. Roberts and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaim for Doc Holliday "Splendid . . . not only the most readable yet definitive study of Holliday yet published, it is one of the best biographies of nineteenth-century Western 'good-bad men' to appear in the last twenty years. It was so vivid and gripping that I read it twice." --Howard R. Lamar, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University, and author of The New Encyclopedia of the American West "The history of the American West is full of figures who have lived on as romanticized legends. They deserve serious study simply because they have continued to grip the public imagination. Such was Doc Holliday, and Gary Roberts has produced a model for looking at both the life and the legend of these frontier immortals." --Robert M. Utley, author of The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull "Doc Holliday emerges from the shadows for the first time in this important work of Western biography. Gary L. Roberts has put flesh and soul to the man who has long been one of the most mysterious figures of frontier history. This is both an important work and a wonderful read." --Casey Tefertiller, author of Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend "Gary Roberts is one of a foremost class of writers who has created a real literature and authentic history of the so-called Western. His exhaustively researched and beautifully written Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend reveals a pathetically ill and tortured figure, but one of such intense loyalty to Wyatt Earp that it brought him limping to the O.K. Corral and into the glare of history." --Jack Burrows, author of John Ringo: The Gunfighter Who Never Was "Gary L. Roberts manifested an interest in Doc Holliday at a very early age, and he has devoted these past thirty-odd years to serious and detailed research in the development and writing of Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend. The world knows Holliday as Doc Holliday. Family members knew him as John. Somewhere in between the two lies the real John Henry Holliday. Roberts reflects this concept in his writing. This book should be of interest to Holliday devotees as well as newly found readers." --Susan McKey Thomas, cousin of Doc Holliday and coauthor of In Search of the Hollidays
Author : Bruce Wexler
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 9781634508667
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Gunfighters written by Bruce Wexler and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the wild characters of the Western frontier, gunfighters were certainly the most feared and the most legendary. Was it their bizarre moral code, their charisma, their temper, or their precise marksmanship that made them so memorable? They were not simply violent, for in the Wild West of the late 1800s, this was hardly unique. The gunfighters whose reputations have survived all had some extra characteristic that has kept them alive throughout history: mystery, depravity, good looks, dandyism, or morality. Gunfighters were an integral part of the West and a direct result of its social and economic conditions. Whereas the law governed disputes in the East, the gun was the Western choice of justice administrator. The Gunfighters takes a closer look at the most famous Wild West gun slingers, such as Doc Holiday, Wyatt Earp, Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and Wild Bill Hickok. The book explores the truth and tall tales surrounding their lives, and the tools of the “shootist’s” trade—some of the most iconic weapons ever discharged in the West. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author : Robert Edelstein
Publisher : Centennial Books
ISBN 13 : 1951274350
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Legends of the Wild West written by Robert Edelstein and published by Centennial Books. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For several hundred years, the West had been the land of dreams, an extraordinary region of hope, expansion and opportunity where European countries—and then the young USA itself—sent their finest explorers to plant seeds in a seemingly untapped, open landscape. This spirit captured the popular imagination in the Wild West, those raucous 30 years between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of a new century. Within these pages, readers will explore true tales of rebels and heroes such as General George Custer, Buffalo Bill, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Annie Oakley, and Sitting Bull, among others. The Wild West was the American Dream on steroids. It was an age of gunfights and gold rushes, cowboys and Comanches, with the likes of Buffalo Bill, Jesse James and Billy the Kid making their names. It forged extraordinary legends and even bigger lies, with everything fueled by dime novels written back East that encouraged folks to grab their share of a promise that was difficult for this hard land to keep. This book looks at all these mythical characters, the start of the railroad across the nation, the cost it all dealt to the Native Americans whose land was lost, and the way Hollywood still keeps the dream alive. As historian Richard White says, “People could go west and no matter their failures elsewhere, they had an opportunity to remake themselves. It’s a symbol for a kind of individualism that actually doesn’t exist in the West, but mythically it does.”
