TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rutter,Michael
TI  - Frontier terror: murder, lynching, and vigilantes in the Old West 
SN  - 9781493067725
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Essex, Connecticut
PB  - TwoDot
KW  - Outlaws
KW  - West (U.S.)
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; East Texas Regulator-Moderator War : The Bloodiest Range Feud in Texas History -- Joseph Smith : An American Prophet Murdered by an American Mob -- John Glanton, Scalp Hunter : The Glanton Gang Terrorizes Northern Mexico -- San Francisco Sex Trafficking is Another Gold Rush -- The Mountain Meadows Massacre : Arkansas Wagon Train Murdered by Mormon Militia -- The Montana Vigilantes : Montana Gold Miners Take the Law into Their Hands -- A Wicked Town at Trail's End : The Mythic vs. Real Dodge City, Kansas -- The Texas Tin Hat Brigade : Maybe the Bloodiest Vigilante Group in the West -- Los Angeles Vigilantes Massacre Chinese : Nineteen Men Hanged in Racial Attack -- Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War : The Regulators Fight "The House" in a Range War Nobody One -- Ellen "Cattle Kate" Watson : Hung by Wyoming Ranchers Who Wanted Her Land -- Teddy Roosevelt : "That Damned Cowboy" Was a Bully Buster President -- Elizabeth Potts : Murderess Dismembers Her Victim and is the First Woman Hung in Nevada -- The Johnson County War : Wyoming Cattle Barons Hire Texas Gunmen to Kill Homesteaders -- Three Dakota Indians Lynched : An Irate Mob Avenges the Spicer Family Killers -- Brown's Park : Range War for a Mountain Valley on the Utah-Colorado Border -- Tom Horn : "Killing Men is My Specialty...It's a Business Proposition" -- Jesse Washington : Convicted of Murder and Lynched in the Town Square -- Texas Rangers : Sometimes an Instrument of Ethnic Cleansing
N2  - "Author Michael Rutter examines the growing pains of the American West through the lens of vigilantes, outlaws, mob violence, and lynchings that occurred between 1840 and 1920, proving that oftentimes our country's democratic progress comes at the cost of physical violence"--
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