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Pages: 224
Authors: William Robert Cox
Categories: Frontier and pioneer life
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Luke L. Short (January 22, 1854 ? September 8, 1893) was an American Old West gunfighter, cowboy, U.S. Army scout, dispatch rider, gambler, boxing promoter and
The Notorious Luke Short
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Pages: 351
Authors: Jack DeMattos
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-15 - Publisher: University of North Texas Press

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Often times the smaller the man, the harder the punch--this adage was true in the case of diminutive Luke Short, whose brief span of years played out in the Wil
Hell's Half Acre
Language: en
Pages: 359
Authors: Richard F. Selcer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-01-01 - Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

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Texas is a place where legends are made, die, and are revived. Fort Worth, Texas, claims its own legend – Hell’s Half Acre – a wild ’n woolly accumulati
Jim Courtright of Fort Worth
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Timothy Isaiah "Longhair Jim" Courtright operated on both sides of the law and became a legend in his lifetime and after his death. One of the most colorful cha
Deadly Dozen
Language: en
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Authors: Robert K. DeArment
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-09 - Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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For every Wild Bill Hickok or Billy the Kid, there was another western gunfighter just as deadly but not as well known. Robert K. DeArment has earned a reputati