Frontier Terror
Murder, Lynching, and Vigilantes in the Old West
Published on 1. April 2023
244 pages
978-1-4930-6773-2 (ISBN)
Description
Following the events of January 6, 2021, talk of vigilantes and mob violence have become a part of our daily discourse, reminding us that we haven't come as far as we thought from the "wild" days of the Old West. The nineteenth century was a time of opportunity in the West, but it was also fraught with lawlessness, racism, and extreme violence as territories became states, freemen and immigrants settled alongside white homesteaders, and the first unions changed the way we work. Author Michael Rutter examines the growing pains of the American West through the lens of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century vigilantes, outlaws, mob violence, and lynchings, proving that oftentimes our country's democratic progress comes at the cost of physical violence.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Globe Pequot Press
Illustrations
37 BW Photos
File size
4,47 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4930-6773-2 (9781493067732)
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06/2023
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Person
Michael Rutter is a freelance writer who lives in Orem, Utah. He is the author of more than forty books (including Globe Pequot's Fun with the Family Utah and Outlaw Tales of Utah). He teaches English at Brigham Young University.
Content
- Intro
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 EAST TEXAS REGULATOR-MODERATOR WAR THE BLOODIEST RANGE FEUD IN TEXAS HISTORY
- 2 JOSEPH SMITH AN AMERICAN PROPHET MURDERED BY AN AMERICAN MOB
- 3 JOHN GLANTON, SCALP HUNTER THE GLANTON GANG TERRORIZES NORTHERN MEXICO
- 4 SAN FRANCISCO SEX TRAFFICKING IS ANOTHER GOLD RUSH
- 5 THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE ARKANSAS WAGON TRAIN MURDERED BY MORMON MILITIA
- 6 THE MONTANA VIGILANTES MONTANA GOLD MINERS TAKE THE LAW INTO THEIR HANDS
- 7 A WICKED TOWN AT TRAIL'S END THE MYTHIC VERSUS REAL DODGE CITY, KANSAS
- 8 THE TEXAS TIN HAT BRIGADE MAYBE THE BLOODIEST VIGILANTE GROUP IN THE WEST
- 9 LOS ANGELES VIGILANTES MASSACRE CHINESE NINETEEN MEN HANGED IN RACIAL ATTACK
- 10 BILLY THE KID AND THE LINCOLN COUNTY WAR THE REGULATORS FIGHT "THE HOUSE"I N A RANGE WAR NOBODY WON
- 11 ELLEN "CATTLE KATE" WATSON HUNG BY WYOMING RANCHERS WHO WANTED HER LAND
- 12 TEDDY ROOSEVELT "THAT DAMNED COWBOY" WAS A BULLY BUSTER PRESIDENT
- 13 ELIZABETH POTTS MURDERESS DISMEMBERS HER VICTIM AND IS THE FIRST WOMAN HUNG IN NEVADA
- 14 THE JOHNSON COUNTY WAR WYOMING CATTLE BARONS HIRE TEXAS GUNMEN TO KILL HOMESTEADERS
- 15 THREE DAKOTA INDIANS LYNCHED AN IRATE MOB AVENGES THE SPICER FAMILY
- 16 BROWN'S PARK RANGE WAR FOR A MOUNTAIN VALLEY ON THE UTAH-COLORADO BORDER
- 17 TOM HORN "KILLING MEN IS MY SPECIALTY. . . .IT'S A BUSINESS PROPOSITION."
- 18 JESSE WASHINGTON CONVICTED OF MURDER AND LYNCHED IN THE TOWN SQUARE
- 19 TEXAS RANGERS SOMETIMES AN INSTRUMENT OF ETHNIC CLEANSING
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
