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Hell on the Border: He Hanged Eighty-Eight Men - Softcover

Harman, S. W.

 
9780803272606: Hell on the Border: He Hanged Eighty-Eight Men
Softcover
ISBN 10: 080327260X ISBN 13: 9780803272606
Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

Judge Isaac C. Parker was the scourge of evil-doers during the twenty-one years he presided over the federal court for the Western District of Arkansas, which included Indian Territory. From 1875 to 1896 he handed death sentences to 172 lawbreakers; 88 of them were actually hanged. The fact that 65 of his deputy marshals were slain in the line of duty indicates the unhealthiness of that border country. Judge Parker, often criticized for rigidity, sympathized with victims and their families but not with the criminals who went to the Fort Smith gallows, which could accommodate six at a time.

Hell on the Border, written by S. W. Harman, who was a defense attorney in Judge Parker's court, is one of the seminal books on outlaws and lawmen. These pages were among the first to recount the daring misdeeds of Frank Dalton, a former deputy marshal under the judge's jurisdiction, and his dangerous brothers. Belle Starr, indicted as a horse thief, appears, one in a parade of defendants, notorious and

A reprint of the original and unabridged edition published in 1898, this Bison Book is introduced by Larry D. Ball, who discusses the formation of the famous court.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Larry D. Ball is a professor of history at Arkansas State University and author of The United States Marshals of New Mexico and Arizona Territories, 1846–1912 (1982).

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Verlag
University of Nebraska Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
080327260X
ISBN 13 
9780803272606
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Anzahl der Seiten
744
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