George Scarborough
The Life and Death of a Lawman on the Closing Frontier
Published on 30. April 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
340 pages
978-0-8061-2850-4 (ISBN)
Description
Now, for the first time, Robert K. DeArment has told the full story of George Scarborough's life, illuminating his activity as a lawman during the final part of the nineteenth century and his controversial killings while wearing the badge-he was tried for murder on three occasions and acquitted each time.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oklahoma
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
45 black & white illustrations, 2 maps
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8061-2850-4 (9780806128504)
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Person
Robert K. DeArment is a University of Toledo, Ohio, graduate whose field of interest is nineteenth-century American history with special emphasis on outlaws and law enforcement in the frontier West. He is the author of Bat Masterson: The Man and the Legend and the three-volume Deadly Dozen: Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, published by the University of Oklahoma Press.