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020 _a9781493067725
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035 _a(OCoLC)1345278588
042 _apcc
043 _an-usp--
092 _a978.02
_bR982
049 _aNFGA
100 1 _aRutter, Michael,
_d1953-
_eauthor.
_9101333
245 1 0 _aFrontier terror :
_bmurder, lynching, and vigilantes in the Old West /
_cMichael Rutter.
246 3 0 _aMurder, lynching, and vigilantes in the Old West
264 1 _aEssex, Connecticut :
_bTwoDot,
_c[2023]
300 _avii, 235 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c23 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aEast 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.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
651 0 _aWest (U.S.)
_xHistory
_y19th century.
_992879
650 0 _aOutlaws
_zWest (U.S.)
_xHistory
_y19th century.
_988715
650 0 _aFrontier and pioneer life
_zWest (U.S.)
_921993
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_bNFG
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