| A Day's Ride from Here Volume 2: Noxville, Texas Contributor(s): Caldwell, Clifford R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1540230767 ISBN-13: 9781540230768 Publisher: History Press Library Editions OUR PRICE: $28.79 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Southwest (az, Nm, Ok, Tx) - Biography & Autobiography | Criminals & Outlaws - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Historical |
| Dewey: 976.488 |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6" W x 9" (0.81 lbs) 146 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - South - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Geographic Orientation - Texas |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Travel alongside historian Cliff Caldwell as he uncovers tales of true Texas grit, all within a day's ride of Mountain Home. Rough characters were plentiful in Kerr County after the Civil War. In fact, no fewer than three thousand of these outlaws were reportedly brought to justice in this same area before the end of the nineteenth century. While Native Americans fought for their ground, notorious gunmen like John Wesley Hardin and Frank Eastwood gained ill-deserved riches or met their fates at the hands of legendary rangers like N.O. Reynolds and Thalis T. Cook. Meet the dastardly yet lesser-known individuals like "Gip" Hardin, a teacher whose drunken night out turned into a gunfight outside Junction City's Turman Hotel, and the Ake brothers, two of the only members of the Eastwood Gang to be set free. |