"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. The events
This work contains details on each person executed by the criminal justice system in three states, from the 1800s through December 2010. Drawing on contemporary newspaper reports, the profiles of each
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 capi
Wilson, a retired law enforcement officer and author who writes about the history of the American West, documents the 460 stagecoach robberies that occurred in California from 1856 to 1913. He traces
Wilson, a retired law enforcement officer and author, describes, by state and in chronological order from 1868-2010, each legal execution since the statehood of five southwestern states: Arizona, Colo
"This reference work chronicles all known legal executions performed in seven western states, from the date each attained statehood to the present. Entries are divided into sections by state then arra
This reference work contains details of all the crimes resulting in executions in the fifteen western American territories. For each territory, entries are arranged chronologically and entered under
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
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 stag
