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Frontier Justice in the Wild West

- First Edition

  • Format
  • Bog, paperback
  • Engelsk
  • 194 sider

Beskrivelse

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 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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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal194
  • Udgivelsesdato01-06-2007
  • ISBN139780762743896
  • Forlag Rowman & Littlefield
  • FormatPaperback
Størrelse og vægt
  • Vægt16 g
  • Dybde1,4 cm
  • coffee cup img
    10 cm
    book img
    15,2 cm
    22,9 cm

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