| Description |
1 online resource (481 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Frances B. Vick Series
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Frances B. Vick series.
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| Summary |
Bad Company and Burnt Powder is a collection of twelve stories of when things turned ""Western"" in the nineteenth-century Southwest. Each chapter deals with a different character or episode in the Wild West involving various lawmen, Texas Rangers, outlaws, feudists, vigilantes, lawyers, and judges. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 422-439) and index. |
| Contents |
Bullets at Bullhead Mountain -- A modern Hercules to the rescue -- Murders and madness at Millican -- Shooting him with pistols and guns -- Has a wolfish look, Is bold to recklessness -- Son, don't take your guns to town -- The plum was ripening fast -- Six-shooters, sermons and sour mash -- I'm shot all to pieces, everything quiet -- Most feared gangster of the time -- Good man, bad boy, big gun -- Distractions of frontier life. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Texas Rangers -- History.
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Texas Rangers. |
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History. |
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Law enforcement -- Texas -- History.
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Law enforcement. |
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Texas. |
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Southwestern States -- History -- 19th century.
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Southwestern States -- History -- 20th century.
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Crime -- Southwestern States -- History -- 19th century.
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Crime. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Crime -- Southwestern States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Law enforcement -- Southwestern States -- History -- 19th century.
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Law enforcement -- Southwestern States -- History -- 20th century.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Southwestern States.
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Frontier and pioneer life. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. |
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United States -- Southwestern States. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781574415667 |
| ISBN |
9781574415803 (electronic book) |
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1574415808 (electronic book) |
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9781574415667 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1574415662 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
40023955514 |
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