| Description |
xix, 308 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
"Longtime Texas prosecutor and defense attorney mines trial records and other primary sources to analyze murder trials from 1880 through WWI in West Texas and Oklahoma. Addresses not only legal and illegal ploys but also inherent pitfalls for a nascent criminal justice system in a frontier society. Historical photographs"--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-295) and index. |
| Contents |
The coming of the law -- The unlikely saviors of Thomas J. Fulcher -- The 1896 Wichita Falls bank robbery -- The 1890s Wells Fargo murder trials -- Pardon me, please! -- More scandalous adventures of the Isaacs family -- Murder and mayhem in the Knox County courthouse -- Strychnine in the bride's flour -- And the perpetrator walked. |
| Subject |
Trials (Murder) -- Texas.
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Trials (Murder) |
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Texas. |
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Texas -- History -- Sources.
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Criminal justice, Administration of. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Sources.
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| Subject |
Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas -- Sources.
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Frontier and pioneer life. |
| ISBN |
0896725790 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780896725799 |
| Standard No. |
9780896725799 |
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