When Six-Guns Ruled by Simmons, Marc
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780941270632
- Book Title
- When Six-Guns Ruled : Outlaw Tales of the Southwest
- Publisher
- Gibbs Smith, Publisher
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 1990
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.4 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), Criminals & Outlaws
- Item Weight
- 0.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 125 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Gibbs Smith, Publisher
ISBN-10
0941270637
ISBN-13
9780941270632
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1116027
Product Key Features
Book Title
When Six-Guns Ruled : Outlaw Tales of the Southwest
Number of Pages
125 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1990
Topic
United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), Criminals & Outlaws
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
0.4 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
89-082081
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
978.9/04
Table Of Content
CONTENTSPREFACE...........................................................................................XIINTRODUCTION..................................................................................INORTHWESTWar in San Juan CountyThe Stocktons and the Coes of the Four Corners, 1879-1881.................8The Provencher MurderCaptain Dumas Provencher is shot in San Rafael, 1888..........................12Violence in PoliticsSanta Fe of the 1890s...........................................................................16NORTHEASTTrail RobbersSanta Fe Trail outlaws, 1864-1872.........................................................21The Outlaw and the NunSister Blandina Segale and Phil Schneider, Trinidad, Colorado, 1870s.....26The Gentleman OutlawClay Allison (1840-1876) and the Colfax County War............................30Justice by the RopeCity Marshal Joe Carson of Las Vegas is Killed, 1880...............................34The Worst OutlawVicente Silva (1845-1893) of Las Vegas..................................................38Black JackThomas "Black Jack" Ketchum (1863-1901) is hanged in Clayton...........43SOUTHEAST"Paddy" Graydon's Tragic EndCaptain James "Paddy" Graydon serves at Fort Craig and Fort Statonthe Cival War......................................................................................48The Killing of Robert CaseyRancher Robert Casey dies in Lincoln, August 2, 1875...........................53The Outlaw Was A LawmanMilt Yarberry of Albuquerque, early 1880s............................................56Reflections on Billy the KidLincoln County, ca. 1881......................................................................60Wild Days in White OakMadam Varnish and others, 1880s and 1890s..........................................65Trouble in PhoenixEddy (now Carlsbad) vicinity, 1890s......................................................68Apache JusticeThe Mescalero Apaches punish one of their own, 1908...........................72The Cowboy DetectiveCharles A. Siringo (1855-1922), cowboy, ranger, Pinkerton detective, author..................................................................76SOUTHWESTWhen Scalp Hunting Was a BusinessBounty man James "Don Santiago" Kirker in the Silver Cityand Borderlands country, 1830s.............................................................81The Hanging of Russian BillLordsburg area, early 1880s...................................................................85Joe Fowler Meets His MakerSocorro, 1883.......................................................................................88An Outrage in Silver CityAn 1883 murder is given a second trial, December 1884...........................93New Mexico's Great Train RobberyDeming vicinity, 1883.............................................................................97A Desperate Gang of ThievesThe Hall gang, Silver City vicinity, 1887-1891..........................................102The Apache Kid's Last RaidA renegade Indian terrorizes southern New Mexico and Arizona1880s nd 1890s, and may have been killed in 1907..................................106The Southwest's Great ImposterJames Addison Reavis, "Baron of Arizona," and the fraudulent Don Miguel Nemecio Silva de Peralta land grant, exposed in 1895...........110Lawmen on HorsebackThe New Mexico Mounted Police, 1905-1921..........................................114The Last Train RobberyYouthful drugstore cowboys from New York City rob the SouthernPacific near Las Cruces, 1938..................................................................119SUGGESTED READINGS........................................................................124
Synopsis
Twenty-seven intriguing vignettes set throughout N.M., about some two dozen outlaws and lawmen, from the 1860s through "The Last Train Robbery" (by young NYC "drugstore cowboys") near Las Cruces in 1938., Twenty-seven intriguing vignettes set throughout N.M., about some two dozen outlaws and lawmen, from the 1860s through "The Last Train Robbery" (by young NYC "drugstore cowboys") near Las Cruces in 1938. Well-known Southwest historian Simmons draws on historical, archival, and frontier newspaper sources to sketch the exploits of the notorious (Clay Allison, Vicente Silva, Black Jack Ketchum, Billy the Kid) and not-so-notorious (Joe Fowler, Capt. "Paddy" Graydon, Madam Varnish of White Oaks, the Hall gang of Silver City, James Addison Reavis, "Baron of Arizona"). Includes an introduction; list of selected readings.
LC Classification Number
F801.S56 1990
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