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  • More Frontier Justice in the Wild West
    R. Michael Wilson / RMichael Wilson
    More Frontier Justice in the Wild West; Bungled, Bizarre and Fascinating Executions reveals the details of more than two dozen instances of frontier justice from the era of the Wild West. These stories of how society dealt with the bad guys—and how the good guys walked a fine line between justice and vigilantism—reveals some surprising truths about the culture of the Wild West....
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    14,77 €

  • Outlaw Tales of Wyoming
    R. Michael Wilson / RMichael Wilson
    Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Wyoming 2, with compelling legends of the Cowboy State’s most despicable desperadoes. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, and hiss at lawmen turned outlaws. ...
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    14,88 €

  • Frontier Justice in the Wild West
    R. Michael Wilson / RMichael Wilson
    Frontier Justice highlights eighteen crimes and subsequent punishments of the most interesting, controversial, and unusual executions from an era when hangings and shootings were a legal means of capital punishment. Learn about the bungled hanging of Tom Ketchum who was beheaded by the noose; the unique trigger for the trapdoor used to hang Tom Horn; "Big Nose" George Parrott w...
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    13,84 €

  • Great Train Robberies of the Old West
    R. Michael Wilson / RMichael Wilson
    During the 1800s trains carried the nation’s wealth throughout the east, but no one thought to rob a speeding train until 1866. In 1870 the first western train was robbed in Nevada and within hours a second train was robbed. Railroads made every alteration to their cars and changed every procedure they could imagine to thwart the robbers, but to no avail. Robbing trains became ...
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    11,27 €

  • Great Stagecoach Robberies of the Old West
    R. Michael Wilson / RMichael Wilson
    Stagecoach robbers evolved as a consequence of the discovery of gold or silver, or some other mineral treasure, and a town would 'spring forth from the earth' overnight. Roads were soon built and stage lines began operating. A 'pitching Betsy' would take out bullion and dust and bring in payrolls, always through country that was rough and isolated. The temptation to get rich qu...
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    11,03 €