Umfang:
1 online resource (353 pages)
ISBN:
9781442246706
Inhalt:
Even after WWI had ended, the region of Arizona, New Mexico and West Texas, stubbornly refused to be tamed. It was still a place where frontier gunfights still broke out at an alarming rate. Through the lens of a handful of Texas Rangers and Federal Agents, the book covers a unique and action-packed era in American history. It's a story that connects the horse and saddle days of the Old West, with the high-octane decade of the Roaring Twenties. Utilizing official records, newspaper accounts, and oral histories, Cowboys and Gangsters tells the story of the untamed "Wild West" of the Prohibition-era of the 1920s and early 1930s and introduces a rogues' gallery of sixgun-packing western gunfighters and lawmen.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION Six-Guns andAutomobiles -- CHAPTER ONEThe Wail ofthe Bootlegger -- CHAPTER TWOCold in Death -- CHAPTER THREEThe Toughest Townon the Santa Fe -- CHAPTER FOURThe Purity Squad -- CHAPTER FIVEManhunt -- CHAPTER SIXDry Agents -- CHAPTER SEVENLiquor War onthe Rio Grande -- CHAPTER EIGHTWhere RoughNecks Are Needed -- CHAPTER NINE"Honor First" -- CHAPTER TEN"You Were Lookingfor Me Last Night" -- CHAPTER ELEVENContrabandistas -- CHAPTER TWELVEBrave Men -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgments -- Endnotes -- Index -- About the Author.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781442246690
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781442246690
Sprache:
Englisch
