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By Robert K. DeArment

ISBN-10: 080613559X

ISBN-13: 9780806135595

ISBN-10: 0806179783

ISBN-13: 9780806179780

Wyatt Earp, Billy the child, document Holliday-such are the mythical names that come to mind after we contemplate the western gunfighter. yet within the American West of the overdue 19th and early 20th centuries, hundreds of thousands of grassroots gunfighters straddled either side of the legislations with out hesitation. Deadly Dozen tells the tale of twelve notorious gunfighters, feared of their personal instances yet virtually forgotten this day. Now, famous historian Robert okay. DeArment has compiled the tales of those vague males. DeArment, a life-long scholar of legislations and lawlessness within the West, has combed court docket files, frontier newspapers, and different references to craft twelve entire biographical pics. The mixed tales of Deadly Dozen supply a radical look at the lives of enforcing figures who of their personal methods formed the mythical outdated West. greater than a collective biography of harmful gunfighters, Deadly Dozen additionally capabilities as a social background of the gunfighter tradition of the post-Civil warfare frontier West. As Walter Noble Burns did for Billy the child in 1926 and Stuart N. Lake for Wyatt Earp in 1931, DeArment-himself a skilled author- brings those figures from the previous West to lifestyles. John Bull, Pat Desmond, Mart Duggan, Milt Yarberry, Dan Tucker, George Goodell, invoice Standifer, Charley Perry, Barney Riggs, Dan Bogan, Dave Kemp, and Jeff Kidder are the twelve risky males that Robert ok. DeArment stories in Deadly Dozen: Twelve Forgotten Gunfighters of the previous West.

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Frodsham. Sentenced on May 6 of that year to ten years in the Wyoming Territorial Prison at Laramie for manslaughter, he served less than two; Governor John M. 44 Deadly Dozen Thayer granted him a pardon on December 29, 1877. A jeweler by trade, Frodsham opened a shop in Laramie, but in less than a year he was in gun trouble again. On August 8, 1878, he and a pal, escaped convict Lee Landers, alias Eli Lee, had a shootout with two other men in front of Susie Parker’s parlor house. A cattle dealer named Taylor was killed.

Marshal M. W. Blain wired Desmond to watch for a suspect believed to be on a Pueblo-bound train. Desmond, waiting at the Union Depot in Pueblo, took a man answering the stage robber’s description into custody, searched him, and found $478 in cash, a small bag of ore, and a silver watch believed to be part of the holdup loot. Desmond locked up the suspect and contacted an Arkansas officer who was in the city looking for a bandit who had pulled off the simultaneous robbery of two coaches near Fayetteville several weeks earlier.

Cook directed 46 Deadly Dozen them to hunt down and arrest the conspirators, militiamen and miners alike. This they did, reportedly rounding up more than two hundred. 32 A few months later Duggan’s penchant for violence was again exhibited. On the afternoon of November 22, 1880, he left his livery stable and set off down snow-covered Pine Street in a sleigh drawn by an elegant pair of matched black horses. He intended to deliver sleigh and team to Winnie Purdy, madam of a high-toned parlor house on West Fifth, only a block away.

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