Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings and Celebrated Trials
Laws passed by politicians in far-off Austin meant little to Westerners living on the Texas frontier. This title presents the evidence that shows how easy some folks found it to evade justice in the frontier West.
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Weitere Autoren: Bakken, Gordon Morris (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-0-89672-651-2
- EAN: 9780896726512
- Produktnummer: 4417000
- Verlag: Texas Tech Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Masse: H22.6 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.3 cm 499 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 499
Über den Autor
Bill Neal practiced criminal law in West Texas for forty years: twenty as a prosecutor and twenty as a defense attorney. Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier was named Book of the Year for 2008 by the National Association for Outlaw and Lawmen History, received the Rupert N. Richardson Award for the best book on West Texas history from the West Texas Historical Association, and was a finalist for both the Violet Crown Award by the Writers' League of Texas and the Spur Award by the Western Writers of America. Neal and his wife, Gayla, live in Abilene, Texas. Gordon Morris Bakken earned his degrees at the University of Wisconsin and teaches American history at California State University, Fullerton. He is the author of sixteen books as well as numerous articles and law reviews, book chapters and encyclopedia entries, and book reviews.
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