Hanging the Sheriff
Author | : Ruth E. Mather |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ruth E. Mather |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ruth E. Mather |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780835732710 |
Author | : Linda Buxbaum |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2014-12-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1503523004 |
Guilty or innocent? Historians have devoted much time and effort investigating whether or not Henry Plummer, the sheriff of Bannack, Montana, actually committed the crimes for which he was hanged by vigilantes on a bitter, cold January night in 1864. The question of his innocence has plagued Western historians for fifteen decades. In May of 1993, a posthumous trial was held in Virginia City, Montana, where a Madison County jury consisting of twelve registered voters split the verdict--6-6. The judge declared a mistrial and had Sheriff Plummer been alive, she would have told him, "You are free to go." Henry's life tells the tale of a lawless West and epitomizes many a man's experience in these untamed, violent mining towns of the 1800s where shootouts and duals rule and life is sometimes worth only a handful of gold or the dispute over a lady, proper or fallen. Henry, a well-educated and handsome man, delicate and consumptive, soft-spoken and refined, appears dedicated to the law and yet, is also capable of instantly shooting a man dead. Trouble follows him everywhere. By the time Henry Plummer becomes sheriff in Bannack in 1863, he has killed five men in self-defense and has loved and lost three women. Henry's time spent at the faro tables pans out better than his time spent as a miner or as a lover. The hunger for gold dust brings every manner of men from all corners of the country and beyond to enjoy the easy reaping, and with them come more robberies and murders. Rumors and suspicion become rampant, leaving no one untouched, including Henry Plummer, a man swept along by the tides of his time.
Author | : Lee Leighton |
Publisher | : Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Cowboys |
ISBN | : 9781410437242 |
Rick Patterson was still a young man, sitting there in the Elk City jail, waiting for the sheriff to call him to his hanging. He'd packed an awful lot of living into his less than thirty years - until he took on greedy cattlemen from up in Montana and down through Wyoming. But even Rick Patterson couldn't stand up against all that power. Sitting in that jail, waiting for it, Rick knew one thing for sure - they'd never hang him - back cover.
Author | : Lee Leighton |
Publisher | : Western Series Level III (24) |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2021-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781643588179 |
Pulpit Rock was a mining town where fistfights were entertainment, hanging was a way of life, and the law was whatever foul temper Sheriff Hawk Fremont was in that day.
Author | : Bill Crider |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Law enforcement |
ISBN | : |
Someone has killed the preacher's daughter in Dry Springs, but just as a young Mexican boy is being fitted for a noose, the town drunk talks and the list of suspects grows.
Author | : West C. Gilbreath |
Publisher | : Wild Horse Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2017-05-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781681790527 |
The most comprehensive work ever done on legal executions by hanging in Texas. Arranged by counties, this book documents 467 executions in Texas, many that have been forgotten through the years. Thoroughly researched by West Gilbreath, a career law enforcement officer, this book is a must for any Texas history buff.
Author | : Eugene Clifton |
Publisher | : Linford |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781846172021 |
When the sheriff of Serenity, Bill Mitchell, is convicted of robbery and murder, men flock to see him executed. Then a newspaperman arrives, named William Palmer. Supposedly looking for a story, Palmer has reasons to wish Mitchell dead. Searching for the truth, he joins in a bid to snatch the sheriff from the gallows. When the range war Mitchell had been holding at bay erupts into life, Palmer risks death and the loss of his new love in a race to bring peace and justice back to Serenity.
Author | : Benjamin Capps |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Cattle breeders |
ISBN | : 9780754081425 |
"Three determined men-- an old judge, a weary sheriff and a worried young man-- were all that stood between the hired killer and the powerful Cattlemen's Association that wanted their personal gunman free. The Cattlemen's Association had paid for and alibi'd half-a-dozen cold blooded killings. Then their executioner had gotten out of hand and wantonly murdered for his own pleasure, sure he could count on his well-placed friends to save him-- and he could" -- page 4 of cover.
Author | : Robert Dwyer |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2021-04-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1493058495 |
Finalist for Western Fictioneers' 2021 Best First Novel-Peacemaker Award Sheriff John Donovan is fighting to maintain his grip on Three Chop, Texas, the town he built and has ruled with an iron fist for twenty years. But as the twentieth century looms, Donovan faces a host of new challenges: powerful business interests, religious schism, and the budding women’s rights and Prohibition movements. As he navigates these changing times, making friends of enemies and enemies of friends, a twist of fate brings to Three Chop a gang of fearsome outlaws looking to wrest new riches and settle old scores. How else could such a struggle end but with bloodshed? A final showdown forces the residents of Three Chops to take sides, to choose between the town’s past and future. Called “one of those rare modern Western fiction classics” by New York Times best-selling author Jeff Guinn, The Sheriff pays loving homage to the Western genre while brilliantly puncturing the myths of the Old West.