Heck Thomas Frontier Marshal
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Heck Thomas Frontier Marshal
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Author : Glenn Shirley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
Heck Thomas Frontier Marshal written by Glenn Shirley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Crime and criminials categories.
Heck Thomas Frontier Marshal
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Author : Glenn Shirley
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2018-09-03
Heck Thomas Frontier Marshal written by Glenn Shirley and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Old West bred some mighty tough men! Unfortunately, the general public knows little or nothing about the good ones! Billy the Kid, the Daltons, Jesse James, Sam Bass, the Youngsters, Wesley Hardin and many more are familiar as “heroes” to the children and their parents of today. So, even more unfortunately are many so-called “lawmen” who were actually nothing but hired killers, far more crooked than most of the men they eliminated! Heck Thomas deserves to be known in a way that most of the current TV “Marshals” never deserved. Fighter, yes, and killer at times, law officer of some of the toughest areas in the Southwest (such as the Cherokee Strip and other outlaw-ridden parts of Oklahoma), he never took a bribe, was a model family man, and lived to a magnificent old age, still “in hardness,” honoured as one of the last genuine heroes of the frontier by all who knew him. No one, outlaw or politician, ever made him back down and his record of arrests and captures still stands as one of the most noteworthy of any peace officer anywhere. To a public which always seeks true heroism and is proud of the iron men who built America, this man, Heck Thomas, must stand forever as the best type of man of the West, low-voiced, courteous, law-abiding, and very, very dangerous. Heck Thomas made his lifework keeping the law, and emerges from the shadowy past to blazing life as an authentic hero of the Old Frontier.
Heck Thomas Frontier Marshal
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Author : Glenn Shirley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
Heck Thomas Frontier Marshal written by Glenn Shirley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Peace officers categories.
Portrait Of A Lawman
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Author : Bonnie Stahlman Speer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Portrait Of A Lawman written by Bonnie Stahlman Speer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
Marshal Of The Last Frontier
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Author : Zoe Agnes Stratton Tilghman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
Marshal Of The Last Frontier written by Zoe Agnes Stratton Tilghman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Brigands and robbers categories.
Encyclopedia Of Frontier Biography P Z
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Author : Dan L. Thrapp
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1991-06-01
Encyclopedia Of Frontier Biography P Z written by Dan L. Thrapp and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-06-01 with History categories.
Includes biographical information on 4,500 individuals associated with the frontier
Facts As I Remember Them
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Author : Rufe LeFors
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2013-12-06
Facts As I Remember Them written by Rufe LeFors and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The rivers of the Texas Panhandle, the Canadian, and the forks of the Red break through the Cap Rock at the eastern edge of the Staked Plains. It’s rough, bleak country, with few trees and a great expanse of sky. Storms that form on the Great Plains and in the Rocky Mountains sweep through with nothing much to slow them down. And the small dusty towns that serve this vast ranchland cling to the waterways as they have for over a hundred years, since their early settlement. Their names aren’t well known now, but they were once focal points in a rugged country where buffalo hunters, trail drivers, outlaws, and ordinary folks alike passed through. Rufe LeFors was one such "ordinary" man. With his father and older brothers, he was among the first to settle this country, drawn to West Texas by tales of open land and good grass. His life story, set down near the end of his long and adventurous life, is the best sort of insider's history, the chronicle of a life lived fully amid the exciting events and rough landscape of the frontier's final years. Rufe LeFors recorded his story over the course of a decade, finishing up in 1941 in his eighty-first year. His memoirs span the period from the War between the States to the early twentieth century, when the Panhandle was still scarcely settled, a true frontier. In his time LeFors was trail driver, pony express rider, and rancher. He traveled for a year with Arrington's Texas Rangers, and he wore the badge of deputy sheriff in the wild west town of Old Mobeetie. He rode a fast horse after claims in the Cherokee Strip, spent time as a horse trader, and finally settled in Lawton, Oklahoma, where, after some twenty years as a deputy, he was elected to the office of sheriff. LeFors knew how to tell a story. Whether it is an account of an outlaw's capture or the rescue of a white girl from prairie fire by a Comanche brave, he weaves into his narrative all the color, drama, and character of the event. His version of the death of Billy the Kid adds another perspective to that much celebrated episode in western history. His encounters with Temple Houston, the governor's flamboyant son, rancher Charles Goodnight, and Ranger Captain Arrington add to our fund of knowledge about those legendary frontier figures. LeFors wanted to get the facts—as he remembered them—straight. With his sharp eye for texture and detail and keen ear for language and timing, he created a narrative that wonderfully captures the flavor of his life and exciting times.
West Of Hell S Fringe
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Author : Glenn Shirley
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 1990-09-01
West Of Hell S Fringe written by Glenn Shirley and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-09-01 with History categories.
Presents an account of crime in Oklahoma Territority from 1889 to 1907.
Ned Christie
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Author : Devon A. Mihesuah
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2018-03-08
Ned Christie written by Devon A. Mihesuah and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Who was Nede Wade Christie? Was he a violent criminal guilty of murdering a federal officer? Or a Cherokee statesman who suffered a martyr’s death for a crime he did not commit? For more than a century, journalists, pulp fiction authors, and even serious historians have produced largely fictitious accounts of “Ned” Christie’s life. Now, in a tour de force of investigative scholarship, Devon A. Mihesuah offers a far more accurate depiction of Christie and the times in which he lived. In 1887 Deputy U.S. Marshal Dan Maples was shot and killed in Tahlequah, Indian Territory. As Mihesuah recounts in unsurpassed detail, any of the criminals in the vicinity at the time could have committed the crime. Yet the federal court at Fort Smith, Arkansas, focused on Christie, a Cherokee Nation councilman and adviser to the tribal chief. Christie evaded capture for five years. His life ended when a posse dynamited his home—knowing he was inside—and shot him as he emerged from the burning building. The posse took Christie’s body to Fort Smith, where it lay for three days on display for photographers and gawkers. Nede’s family suffered as well. His teenage cousin Arch Wolfe was sentenced to prison and ultimately perished in the Canton Asylum for “insane” Indians—a travesty that, Mihesuah shows, may even surpass the injustice of Nede’s fate. Placing Christie’s story within the rich context of Cherokee governance and nineteenth-century American political and social conditions, Mihesuah draws on hundreds of newspaper accounts, oral histories, court documents, and family testimonies to assemble the most accurate portrayal of Christie’s life possible. Yet the author admits that for all this information, we may never know the full story, because Christie’s own voice is largely missing from the written record. In addition, she spotlights our fascination with villains and martyrs, murder and mayhem, and our dangerous tendency to glorify the “Old West.” More than a biography, Ned Christie traces the making of an American myth.
It Happened In Oklahoma
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Author : Robert L. Dorman
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-05-17
It Happened In Oklahoma written by Robert L. Dorman and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-17 with History categories.
This book offers an inside look at over 30 interesting and unusual episodes that shaped the history of the Sooner State. Read all about the Trail of Tears in Tahlequah. Find out why George W. McLaurin was denied admission to the University of Oklahoma in 1950. Try to solve the mystery of Karen Silkwood's suspicious death in 1974.