Frontier Justice in the Wild West

Frontier Justice in the Wild West
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 193
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ISBN-10 : 9781461750079
ISBN-13 : 1461750075
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Book Synopsis Frontier Justice in the Wild West by : R. Michael Wilson

Download or read book Frontier Justice in the Wild West written by R. Michael Wilson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Chapters include: 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 who was skinned, pickled, and made into a pair of shoes; the double trials of Jack McCall, assassin of Wild Bill Hickok; the hanging of a woman-Elizabeth Potts; the shooting of John D. Lee of Mountain Meadows Massacre infamy; and the only use of a double "twitch-up" gallows; etc. Each action-packed chapter includes biographical information, the pursuit, the investigation, legal maneuvers, trial information, and rarely-seen photographs.


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