Six-Guns and Saddle Leather
Six-Guns and Saddle Leather

Author: Ramon Frederick Adams

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1998-02-25

Total Pages: 846

ISBN-13: 9780486400358

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Authoritative guide to everything in print about lawmen and the lawless—from Billy the Kid to the painted ladies of frontier cow towns. Nearly 2,500 entries, taken from newspapers, court records, and more.

Desert Lawmen
Desert Lawmen

Author: Larry D. Ball

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 1996-03-01

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 0826325017

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Elected for two-year terms, frontier sheriffs were the principal peace-keepers in counties that were often larger than New England states. As officers of the court, they defended settlers and protected their property from the ever-present violence on the frontier. Their duties ranged from tracking down stagecoach robbers and serving court warrants to locking up drunks and quelling domestic disputes.The reality of their job embraced such mandane duties as being jail keepers, tax collectors, quarantine inspectors, court-appointed executioners, and dogcatchers.