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The Life and Death of Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain

Author : Arrell Morgan Gibson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806112312
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Death of Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain written by Arrell Morgan Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the last Thursday in January 1896, Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain, accompanied by his eight-year-old son, Henry, left Lincoln, New Mexico, in a buckboard to drive to his home in Las Cruces. He never arrived. Later a pool of blood and a blood-soaked handkerchief pointed to murder. Although indictments were returned, no one was convicted of that murder, one of New Mexico's most talked-about mysteries. During the territory's development, Fountain, the man of law and order, had confronted relentless outlaws, who finally got their man on a lonely stretch of road with the White Sands as a backdrop. As a special U.S. district attorney, Fountain prosecuted the San Marcial ring on land-fraud charges. He repeatedly opposed young Albert Bacon Fall at law, in politics, and in the territorial legislature. On the eve of his death, Fountain was a key figure in the Lincoln County grand jury investigation into cattle rustling. Gibson's account will be no less significant to those with an interest in the Albert B. Fall of the Teapot Dome scandal than to those who wish to know what became of Colonel Fountain.

The Life and Death of Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain

Author : Arrell M. Gibson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806112312
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Death of Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain written by Arrell M. Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1965-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last Thursday in January, 1896, Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain, accompanied by his eight-year-old son, Henry, left Lincoln, New Mexico, in a buckboard to drive to his home in Las Cruces. He never arrived. Later a pool of blood and a blood-soaked handkerchief pointed to murder. Although indictments were returned, no one was convicted of that murder, one of New Mexico's most talked-about mysteries. That course of the territory's development had pitted the man of law and order, Fountain, against relentless outlaws, who finally got their man on a lonely stretch of road with the White Sands as a backdrop. As a special United States district attorney, Fountain had prosecuted the San Marcial ring on land-fraud charges. He had repeatedly opposed young Albert Bacon Fall at law, in politics, and in the territorial legislature. On the eve of his death, he was a key figure in the Lincoln County grand jury investigation into cattle rustling. This account will be no less significant to those with an interest in the Albert B. Fall of the Teapot Dome scandal than to those who wish to know what became of Colonel Fountain. Arrell M. Gibson was George Lynn Cross Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. His other books include The Chickasaws, The History of Oklahoma, Oklahoma: A History of Five Centuries, The Oklahoma Story, and The Kickapoos all published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Murder on the White Sands

Author : Corey Recko
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574412248
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Murder on the White Sands written by Corey Recko and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The evidence pointed at three men, former deputies William McNew, James Gililland, and Oliver Lee. These three men, however, were very close with powerful ex-judge, lawyer, and politician Albert B. Fall. It was even said by some that Fall was the mastermind behind the plot to kill Fountain. Forced to wait two years for a change in the political landscape, Garrett finally presented his evidence to the court and secured indictments against the three suspects." "The trial took place in the secluded town of Hillsboro. The murders of the Fountains became an afterthought as the accused men, defended by their attorney Fall, pleaded innocence. Missing witnesses plagued the prosecution, and armed supporters of the defendants, who packed the courtroom, intimidated others. The verdict: not guilty.".

The Two Alberts

Author : Gordon Richard Owen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Two Alberts written by Gordon Richard Owen and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of the most colorful, influential, and controversial figures in southern Territorial New Mexico were Albert Jennings Fountain and Albert Bacon Fall. Fountain arrived in southern Territorial New Mexico with the California Column during the Civil War and made his mark twenty-five years before Fall's arrival. Fall, born during the Civil War, ventured westward to seek his fortune as a miner. Both brought with them dominant personalities, an ability with words, a flair for leadership, and an endless enthusiasm for their adopted land. They were instrumental in shaping the growth, economics, law, government, and politics of Territorial New Mexico. Devoted to their families and their political parties, both rose to the top of New Mexico politics and Fall served as a U.S. Senator and a Cabinet Secretary. Political opponents and bitter personal enemies, they locked horns almost from Fall's arrival in the Territory until Fountain's disappearance. In spite of their political and legal successes, both lives ended in tragedy. Fountain and his 9-year-old son Henry disappeared near the San Andres Mountains while returning from Lincoln, New Mexico. Their bodies have never been recovered and their fate is one of Southern New Mexico's most intriguing unsolved mysteries. Fall died an ill and broken man as a result of the Teapot Dome Scandal. Owen has meticulously researched what has been written by and about these two men to provide an unbiased analysis of their lives and contributions, and their interactions with each other.

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid as I Knew Them

Author : John P. Wilson
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826333273
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid as I Knew Them written by John P. Wilson and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cowboy, army guide, farmer, peace officer, and character in his own right, John P. Meadows arrived in New Mexico from Texas as a young man. During his life in the Southwest, he knew or worked for many well-known characters, including William “Billy the Kid” Bonney, Sheriff Pat Garrett, John Selman, Hugh Beckwith, Charlie Siringo, and Pat Coghlan. Meadows helped investigate the disappearance of Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain, and he later bought part of downtown Tularosa, New Mexico, where he served a term as mayor. The recollections gathered here are based on Meadows’s interviews with a reporter for the Alamogordo News, a partial transcript of his reminiscences given at the Lincoln State Monument, and a talk he gave by invitation in Roswell, New Mexico, to refute inaccuracies in the 1930 MGM movie Billy the Kid.

The Stolen Pinkerton Reports of the Colonel Albert J. Fountain Murder Investigation

Author : David G. Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982870969
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Stolen Pinkerton Reports of the Colonel Albert J. Fountain Murder Investigation written by David G. Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The abduction and apparent murder of Colonel Albert J. and Henry Fountain on February 1, 1896, shocked and outraged the citizens of New Mexico. It was not the killing of Colonel Fountain, a Union Civil War veteran and a prominent New Mexico attorney, which roused the physical disgust of the citizenry - after all, it was not unknown for distinguished men to be killed. It was the cold-blooded murder of his eight-year-old son which provoked the public outcry and revulsion.The evidence indicated that although Colonel Albert J. Fountain was killed during the ambush, his son was taken alive, and only killed the next day.The public was left without answers to the questions:Who ambushed and killed Colonel Fountain?Who was willing to kill his young son in cold-blood after holding him captive for 24 hours?The case was never solved. Two men were eventually tried for and acquitted of the crime.The case file for the crime contains almost no information. There are no trial transcripts or witness testimonies. The only reports that exist today of the investigation of the case are these Pinkerton Reports, which were commissioned by the Territorial Governor, and then stolen from his office four months after the murders. These Reports, now recovered, are published here.These Reports are important historical documents, not only for what they reveal about the Fountain murders, but also as a fascinating window into how the most famous professional detective agency in the United States in the 1890s - the Pinkerton Detective Agency - went about investigating a murder, at a time when scientific forensic evidence was virtually non-existent.The two Pinkerton Operatives sent to investigate the crime were John Conklin Fraser and William C. Sayers, the Agency's most competent detectives. Their investigative methods revolved around taking witness and suspect statements, and then working to verify what they were told, a process that remains at the heart of criminal investigation today.

The Encyclopedia of Lawmen, Outlaws, and Gunfighters

Author : Leon Claire Metz
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143813021X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Lawmen, Outlaws, and Gunfighters written by Leon Claire Metz and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standoffs, saloons, and sunsets spring to mind when one envisions the rough and tumble early days of the American frontier.

Bad Company and Burnt Powder

Author : Bob Alexander
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574415662
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Bad Company and Burnt Powder written by Bob Alexander and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bad Company and Burnt Powder is a collection of twelve stories of when things turned "Western" in the nineteenth-century Southwest. Each chapter deals with a different character or episode in the Wild West involving various lawmen, Texas Rangers, outlaws, feudists, vigilantes, lawyers, and judges. Covered herein are the stories of Cal Aten, John Hittson, the Millican boys, Gid Taylor and Jim and Tom Murphy, Alf Rushing, Bob Meldrum and Noah Wilkerson, P. C. Baird, Gus Chenowth, Jim Dunaway, John Kinney, Elbert Hanks and Boyd White, and Eddie Aten. Within these pages the reader will meet a nineteen-year-old Texas Ranger figuratively dying to shoot his gun. He does get to shoot at people, but soon realizes what he thought was a bargain exacted a steep price. Another tale is of an old-school cowman who shut down illicit traffic in stolen livestock that had existed for years on the Llano Estacado. He was tough, salty, and had no quarter for cow-thieves or sympathy for any mealy-mouthed politicians. He cleaned house, maybe not too nicely, but unarguably successful he was. Then there is the tale of an accomplished and unbeaten fugitive, well known and identified for murder of a Texas peace officer. But the Texas Rangers couldn't find him. County sheriffs wouldn't hold him. Slipping away from bounty hunters, he hit Owlhoot Trail.

Great Murder Trials of the Old West

Author : Johnny D. Boggs
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146162567X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Great Murder Trials of the Old West written by Johnny D. Boggs and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2002-11-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not every Wild West disagreement was settled with guns on a dusty street. Even on the frontier, accused criminals were entitled to a fair trial. Author Johnny Boggs recreates and analyzes some of the wildest murder trials of these times.

River of Spirits: A Natural History of New Mexico’s Las Animas Creek

Author : Edited by Harley G. Shaw, Photographs by Matilde Holzwarth, Foreword by Todd Wilkinson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625858604
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book River of Spirits: A Natural History of New Mexico’s Las Animas Creek written by Edited by Harley G. Shaw, Photographs by Matilde Holzwarth, Foreword by Todd Wilkinson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originating high in New Mexico's mysterious Black Range and flowing to the Rio Grande amid contorted, ghost-like sycamores, Las Animas Creek remains one of the least accessible landscapes in the nation. The watershed is best known as the site of Apache chief Victorio's last major battle with the U.S. Cavalry before his retreat and ultimate defeat by the Mexican army. Despite its geographic isolation, the watershed remains closely linked with the history of nearby Kingston, Hillsboro and Caballo. Once home to New Mexico's last grizzly, Las Animas sustains a diverse range of native plants and wild animals, including bison, prairie dogs and mountain lions, as well as a host of endangered species. Aldo Leopold Wilderness and Ted Turner's Ladder Ranch ensure it remains Rio de las Animas, the "River of Spirits." Wildlife research biologist Harley G. Shaw compiles a human and natural history of this remote ecosystem.

Billy the Kid

Author : Robert M. Utley
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803295582
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book Billy the Kid written by Robert M. Utley and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the career of the young outlaw whose life and death were an expression of the violence prevalent on the American frontier.

Outlaws

Author : Robert Barr Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149300462X
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Outlaws written by Robert Barr Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people who pushed west were mostly ordinary folks, the guts of the young United States, tough, ambitious, hardworking, and anxious to leave the world better for their kids than it had been for them. Those who did not come of that hardy stock did not last. With them came the trouble-makers, to everybody’s sorrow. Some of them were already running from the law someplace else. Others were simply dishonest, looking for a time and place to blossom into full-blown hoodlums. Some of the young people emulated them: there was some illusory swagger in being a hoodlum, witness the nicknames they carried around . . . many of which they had invented themselves, a sort of phony glory. This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West’s most egregiously bad bad guys caught in the act of mayhem, distraction, murder, and highway robbery, includes famous names like the Dalton gang, lesser known bandits like Kaiser Bill Goodman, and many more. The book will include archival illustrations and photographs of the shady characters and the scenes of their crimes.

OUTLAWS: TALES OF BAD GUYS WHO SHAPED TH

Author : Robert Barr Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493004611
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book OUTLAWS: TALES OF BAD GUYS WHO SHAPED TH written by Robert Barr Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people who pushed west were mostly ordinary folks, the guts of the young United States, tough, ambitious, hardworking, and anxious to leave the world better for their kids than it had been for them. Those who did not come of that hardy stock did not last. With them came the trouble-makers, to everybody’s sorrow. Some of them were already running from the law someplace else. Others were simply dishonest, looking for a time and place to blossom into full-blown hoodlums. Some of the young people emulated them: there was some illusory swagger in being a hoodlum, witness the nicknames they carried around . . . many of which they had invented themselves, a sort of phony glory. This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West’s most egregiously bad bad guys caught in the act of mayhem, distraction, murder, and highway robbery, includes famous names like the Dalton gang, lesser known bandits like Kaiser Bill Goodman, and many more. The book will include archival illustrations and photographs of the shady characters and the scenes of their crimes.

Bookman's Guide to Americana

Author : Joseph Norman Heard
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810818941
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book Bookman's Guide to Americana written by Joseph Norman Heard and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No descriptive material is available for this title.

Community, Home, and Identity

Author : Terry L. Turnipseed
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317163354
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Community, Home, and Identity written by Terry L. Turnipseed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community, home, and identity are concepts that have concerned scholars in a variety of fields for some time. Legal scholars, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and economists, among others, have studied the impacts of home and community on one's identity and how one's identity is manifested in one's home and in one's community. This volume brings together some of the leading thinkers about the connections between community, home and identity. Several chapters address how the law and lawyers contribute (or detract) from the creation and maintenance of community and, in some cases, the conscious destruction of communities. Others examine the protection of individual and group identities through rules related to property title and use of such things as Home and 'identity property'.

W.C. Jameson Beyond the Grave eBook Gift Set

Author : W.C. Jameson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493017063
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book W.C. Jameson Beyond the Grave eBook Gift Set written by W.C. Jameson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook collection is geared for history buffs who shy away from white knights and do-gooders. W. C. Jameson’s exploration of outlaws and criminals from the 20th century goes deep within the wrinkles of time, uncovering long-kept secrets, misinformed facts, and what became of these outlaws in the end. The set includes Butch Cassidy, John Wilkes Booth, and Billy the Kid.

Beyond Redemption

Author : Patrick G. Williams
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1585445738
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Redemption written by Patrick G. Williams and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of Reconstruction, the old order reasserted itself, to varying degrees, throughout the former Confederate states. This period—Redemption, as it was called—was crucial in establishing the structures and alliances that dominated the Solid South until at least the mid-twentieth century. Texas shared in this, but because of its distinctive antebellum history, its western position within the region, and the large influx of new residents that poured across its borders, it followed its own path toward Redemption. Now, historian Patrick G. Williams provides a dual study of the issues facing Texas Democrats as they rebuilt their party and of the policies they pursued once they were back in power. Treating Texas as a southern but also a western and a borderlands state, Williams has crafted a work with a richly textured awareness unlike any previous single study. Students of regional and political history will benefit from Williams’ comprehensive view of this often overlooked, yet definitive era in Texas history.