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Book Synopsis The Marshalship of Leadville by : Martin Duggan
Download or read book The Marshalship of Leadville written by Martin Duggan and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Colorado, 1860; mining and freighting; at Leadville from 1878; third city marshal, the only man who could "prevent the roughs from running the town."
Book Synopsis Marshal Mart Duggan's Leadville by : Robert V. Hunt Jr.
Download or read book Marshal Mart Duggan's Leadville written by Robert V. Hunt Jr. and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eddie Foy, the famous vaudevillian who toured the West during the late 1800s, was qouted as saying that compared to Leadville, Colorado, Dodge City resembled a Sunday School. The 10,200 - foot high "Magic City" was one of the wildest mining camps of the era. This book is a semi-biographical history of Martin "Mart" Duggan, who was Leadville City marshal for two and nearly three terms before he met his end at the hands of gambling pals. But Leadville was also home to numerous other fascinating characters, not the least of whom was John Henry "Doc" Holliday, who had his last gunfight in Leadville in 1884. They all came to Leadville: the confidence men, the gamblers, the stage robbers, and the "soiled doves" though they could have never known it at the time, being primarily concerned with survival, these individuals in their totality combined to create one of the most intriguing camps in the Wild West. And the site of much of the action that made Leadville unique occurred on State Street, the half mile long stretch of gambling dens, saloons, and bawdy houses that rivaled any red light district then in existence. Even today, when State Street has been renamed Second Street, one can imagine Mart Duggan, Doc Holliday, and Tombstone's Johnny Tyler, to name only a few walking westward from Harrison Avenue to the east-west mecca of State Street. Gazing upward they would see majestic Mount Massive directly in front of them. What a view! What a mining camp! Marshal Mart Duggan's Leadville - the Wild West at its most fascinating.
Book Synopsis Deadly Dozen by : Robert K. DeArment
Download or read book Deadly Dozen written by Robert K. DeArment and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday—such are the legendary names that spring to mind when we think of the western gunfighter. But in the American West of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thousands of grassroots gunfighters straddled both sides of the law without hesitation. Deadly Dozen tells the story of twelve infamous gunfighters, feared in their own times but almost forgotten today. Now, noted historian Robert K. DeArment has compiled the stories of these obscure men. DeArment, a life-long student of law and lawlessness in the West, has combed court records, frontier newspapers, and other references to craft twelve complete biographical portraits. The combined stories of Deadly Dozen offer an intensive look into the lives of imposing figures who in their own ways shaped the legendary Old West. More than a collective biography of dangerous gunfighters, Deadly Dozen also functions as a social history of the gunfighter culture of the post-Civil War frontier West. As Walter Noble Burns did for Billy the Kid in 1926 and Stuart N. Lake for Wyatt Earp in 1931, DeArment—himself a talented writer—brings these figures from the Old West to life. John Bull, Pat Desmond, Mart Duggan, Milt Yarberry, Dan Tucker, George Goodell, Bill Standifer, Charley Perry, Barney Riggs, Dan Bogan, Dave Kemp, and Jeff Kidder are the twelve dangerous men that Robert K. DeArment studies in Deadly Dozen: Twelve Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West.
Book Synopsis The Revised and General Ordinances of the City of Leadville by :
Download or read book The Revised and General Ordinances of the City of Leadville written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Guns of the Heart by : Kermit L. Krueger
Download or read book Guns of the Heart written by Kermit L. Krueger and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gunslinger Bruno Turnbull has always lived by his wits. A man driven by the dream of owning a ranch, Bruno is led to the boomtowns of the West, where he quickly learns that he must either stay tough or die. But just as he saves enough money to buy a ranch, his dream is stolen. Now he needs a new plan. Unfortunately, it comes with a hefty price. With a reputation as the fastest gun in town, Bruno has gained the respect of the lawless element in the gold camp. When those skills bring him the chance for quick but not quite legal money, Bruno initially turns it down. But with the temptation of easy money dangling in front of his nose, Bruno must decide if is willing to trade honesty for his dream just as he meets the spirited Kitty Duncan. He secretly wonders if she's the one for him; before he has a chance to answer his own question, however, Bruno is led down a dangerous path where he soon discovers his destiny has been changed forever. In this inspirational western tale, only time will tell if both Bruno and Kitty will embrace the faith-filled journey offered to them by several strangers and transform their lives for good.
Book Synopsis The Mammoth Book of the West by : Jon E. Lewis
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of the West written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and expanded edition of Jon E. Lewis's ever-popular account of the American West. The book is at once a history and a compendium of western lore. It tells what life on the frontier was really like and gives a human portrait of the tough and sometimes violent way of life experienced by the early pioneers. The gunfighters and the cowboys, women, Indians and others, all have their part to play - and as well as the historical accounts there are intriguing anecdotes of everyday life on the plains, from how Montana cowboys warmed up their horses' bits, to the words of the Navajo medicine chants.
Book Synopsis Out of the West by : Rufus Rockwell Wilson
Download or read book Out of the West written by Rufus Rockwell Wilson and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic of American expansion has had many chroniclers. Romance is wedded to heroism and rich achievement crowned high endeavor. In this present volume is woven the golden thread of that romantic and heroic era. Here, on these pages, live again the mighty men of those epoch-making days when the forces of manhood were matched against the forces of nature, valor against villainy, and life itself was ventured on a single hazard of fortune. Nurtured, many of them, in the calm and quiet of the more settled East, they dreamed as youths of those plains and mountains "out where the West begins." They matched their wits against the crafty red man and their strength against the perils and privations of a trackless wilderness. With the might to conquer they triumphed over heat and cold, over foe and famine, over storm and starvation, and made Death Valley a highway to the shores of the Pacific - where the West ends. The record which these pages unfold could be written only by a man who knows the West, and who, though himself an Easterner, feels akin with the spirit of the pioneer. Countless pages have been scanned for an accurate record of those men and times and for verification of the stirring incidents recited here. Numerous interviews and prolonged research have enabled the author to present a stirring, vivid picture of glamorous years and of valorous men who undeterred by danger and unafraid of death wrought mighty deeds and opened vast areas to commerce and civilization.
Download or read book The Americas written by Trudy Ring and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This five-volume set presents some 1,000 comprehensive and fully illustrated histories of the most famous sites in the world. Entries include location, description, and site details, and a 3,000- to 4,000-word essay that provides a full history of the site and its condition today. An annotated further reading list of books and articles about the site completes each entry. The geographically organized volumes include: * Volume 1: The Americas * [1-884964-00-1] * Volume 2: Northern Europe * [1-884964-01-X] * Volume 3: Southern Europe * [1-884964-02-8] * Volume 4: Middle East & Africa * [1-884964-03-6] * Volume 5: Asia & Oceania * [1-884964-04-4]
Download or read book McKenzie written by Gerald L. Blundell and published by PublishAmerica. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Martin McKenzie is killed in July of 1876, leaving seventeen-year-old Jeff McKenzie without a family, Jeff decides to become a Texas Ranger, just like his father had been. But he has no idea how this will change his life. While Jeff travels, the reader will find old-fashioned gunfights; the history of mining in Colorado; outdoor adventure as Jeff McKenzie travels to west Texas, Arizona, and Colorado as a Texas Ranger and United States Marshal; crime; suspense; romance; and surprise. Jeff McKenzie will meet many fictional characters like Sid Johnson, who will add humor to this book, and a romantic interest, Jeff's wife Carmen. While Jeff is traveling, he will also meet people like Bob Ford, Calamity Jane, Soapy Smith, Nicholas Creede, and Bat Masterson, and he will ride into Mexico after outlaws with Tom Horn. President Grover Cleveland gives Texas Ranger Jeff McKenzie a special commission as United States Marshal in March of 1886. Marshal McKenzie is given the job of catching and bringing in the Booth Carlisle gang, which is wanted for kidnapping and slave running. Marshal McKenzie joins forces with Tom Horn on the banks of the Rio Grande and they trail Carlisle across the Chihuahua desert with the help of a half-breed named Pete. McKenzie and Tom Horn meet Booth Carlisle and his gang in a deadly gunfight in the streets of Aquiles Serdán. McKenzie is a trilogy covering ten years, from 1876 to 1886. Explanatory notes are provided.
Book Synopsis Longarm 300: Longarm and the Dead Man's Tale by : Tabor Evans
Download or read book Longarm 300: Longarm and the Dead Man's Tale written by Tabor Evans and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-10-28 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longarm enlists a play-pretty in a game of play-deadly! Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long is out to recover fifty grand that the late Abner Prentiss hid away before being arrested—in the company of hired gal-pal Cherry Poppin. Since Prentiss murdered his partners, his former play-pretty may be the only one who can lead Longarm to the stash. But traipsing around town with everyone’s favorite whore is no way to conduct an investigation—and Longarm is soon defending Miss Poppin’s honor like a latter-day Don Quixote. And now that a suddenly cash-rich local lawman may be involved, it looks like a lot more blood will be shed over this dead outlaw’s blood money…
Book Synopsis History of Leadville and Lake County, Colorado by : Don L. Griswold
Download or read book History of Leadville and Lake County, Colorado written by Don L. Griswold and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ripper Notes written by Dan Norder and published by Inklings Press. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ripper Notes: Madmen, Myths and Magic" is a collection of essays about the notorious Whitechapel serial killer Jack the Ripper and other topics that shed new light on the case. Jan Bondeson discusses "Serial Sadistic Stabbers" throughout history, including the interesting case of the London Monster, a man who stabbed women in London in the 18th century and who is in some ways a precursor to Jack the Ripper. Amanda Howard gives a short overview of serial killers who predate the Whitechapel murders of 1888. Wolf Vanderlinden follows with "The Supernatural Connection," a detailed study of the various psychics past and present who claimed to have otherworldly knowledge of the Ripper killings. Famed expert Paul Begg in "On The Matter of Milk" examines witness Mrs. Malcolm's testimony that she saw victim Mary Jane Kelly on the morning of her murder (after the time the doctors later told the police that Kelly must have already been killed) as she went to buy milk. Bernard Brown investigates the site of the murder of Jack the Ripper's first canonical victim, Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, and uncovers a history of persecution of women in "The Witches of Whitechapel." Tom Wescott then explores a possible link between the Ripper murders, magic rituals desecrating Christian symbols, and the Lindbergh baby kidnapping tragedy. Dan Norder's "Connecting the Dots" explores the various theories that the Ripper crime scenes were chosen in advance in order to form a symbol, describing the various patterns that have been suggested and looking into the statistics to try to determine if they were a result of forethought or blind chance. Antonio Sironi then asks if the murder of the Elizabeth Stride, usually named by experts as the third victim, in Dutfield's Yard was a change in the Ripper's normal methodology. The essays are concluded with Roger Peterson's "Did Jack the Ripper Visit Leadville?" which chronicles an example of Ripper hysteria that reached all the way to a booming Colorado mining community in the United States not long after the Whitechapel murders. All of the articles are extensively illustrated with woodcuts, photos, diagrams and other illustrations. In addition, the back cover features a color map of the East End of London in the 19th century with the locations of the five generally accepted Jack the Ripper killings marked for easy reference. Ripper Notes is a nonfiction anthology series covering all aspects of the Jack the Ripper murder case.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Forms and Precedents for Pleading and Practice, at Common Law, in Equity, and Under the Various Codes and Practice Acts by : William Henry Michael
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Forms and Precedents for Pleading and Practice, at Common Law, in Equity, and Under the Various Codes and Practice Acts written by William Henry Michael and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Cowboy Chronicles Old West Myths & Legends by : Thomas Correa
Download or read book The American Cowboy Chronicles Old West Myths & Legends written by Thomas Correa and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-12-14 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the real Old West. The research presented here comes from what I've found during my more than forty-five years of researching American history, but especially what I've learned in regards to the other side of the myths and legends of the Old West. In 2010, I started a blog, The American Cowboy Chronicles, to share what I've learned and celebrate the virtues of America. My articles on the Old West have never been meant to dispel the myths or attack legends but to simply explain what I've found after taking a hard look, an honest look, an objective look, at the evidence that's available. Since evidence proves or disproves what we've all been told about the Old West by Hollywood and writers who are not objective researchers, this is my attempt at taking a fresh look at Wyatt Earp, Tom Horn, and others. But mostly, this book is about why the American Cowboy became America's quintessential role model. This book looks at why the American Cowboy represents American toughness, independence, and resilience to the rest of the World.
Download or read book The Federal Cases written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mystery of the Haunted Mine by : Michael Ivie
Download or read book The Mystery of the Haunted Mine written by Michael Ivie and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moquedas, or Tonto, The Brave, as he is known to his companions, Mehitabel Lee and Ronnie Jones, with whom he shares many adventures, while hiking with them in the canyons around their town of Highland Boy, come across a deep abandoned mineshaft. When Ronnie drops a pebble into it to determine its depth, instead of a rock-against-rock echo or the sound of a splash, they hear a screeching throbbing wail as though from a tormented witch. Thus begins the adventure of a lifetime for the three companions. They are determined to learn more about the legends, which have caused the people of Highland Boy to be fearful of the thundershowers, whose brilliant flashes of lightening and building-shaking thunder, come to town about the same time each year. The elders, the town marshal and doctor, relate stories of the old days: Of a romance between ill-fated lovers, whose mishaps in days gone by, have led to the mysteries that cause the haunting, screeching laughter and wails of despair that accompany the thunder and lightening. Determined to end the grief of the lovers and end the troubles that plague the town, the adventurers set out to learn all they can and rid the town of its nightmarish history. They bravely face the missions that they have laid out for themselves in order to achieve their goals. Finally, in the coroner's dark, rat-infested warehouse, the adventurers find the key that will help them solve the mystery of the haunted mine and bring peace to their beloved town. They vow to return the key, a message of love, to its rightful place, in the haunted mine.
Download or read book Slocum #385 written by Jake Logan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slocum partners up with a female sleuth—and they’re hot on the case… When John Slocum rides into the mining town of Leadville a little down on his luck, he doesn’t expect to get swindled out of his last gold piece. And when he finds the man responsible for the counterfeit money and doles out his own form of justice, Slocum winds up in the local jail. Lucky for him, there’s a spunky lady detective looking for the source of the counterfeit coins—and she thinks Slocum is the perfect gunslinger to help her solve the mystery…
