Author Name: Hollon, W. Eugene
Title: FRONTIER VIOLENCE: Another Look
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Size: 8vo - over 8" - 9" Tall Octavo
Publisher: New York, NY Oxford University Press 1974
Illustrator: Photos
Seller ID: 027219
xii, 279 pp, light yel cloth covered boards w/dark brown lettering & illustration. America has always had a violent past. The history of every Western state is replete with lawlessness. There were claim jumpers, miners, cwoboys, cattle rustlers, Indian haters, Border ruffians, Mexican banditti, mule skinners, railroad workers, highwaymen, racial bigots, professional outlaws, homicidal maniacs, & hired gunslingers. In addition ther were the so-called "gentlemen of property and standing" ranchers, farmers, bankers, town builders, railroad owners, lawyers, doctors, politicians, mine operators & others, who sometimes took the law into their own hands. Ex-library book w/s TxU stamped on all three edges, cardholder & library coding on FPD, remnants of checkout slip on ffep, library label on spine, spine sunned, slight wear to corners, boards some soiling.
AMERICAN WEST FRONTIER VIOLENCE LAWLESSNESS CRIME NON-FICTION AMERICANA HISTORY
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