Dangerous Dan Tucker: New Mexico's Deadly Lawman

Deputy Sheriff, Town Marshall, Deputy U.S. Marshall, Train Agent, Livestock Inspector, Dan Tucker was the quintessential lawman during the violent frontier period of southwest New Mexico. By his own deadpan account, he was "obliged to kill eight men" in Grant County alone -- not counting four other outlaws he personally dropped from the scaffold. Disinclined by nature to back down from anyone, Tucker was involved in some one dozen shooting scrapes, was shot four times, and he arrested Russian Bill and Sandy King. Yet "Dangerous Dan Tucker" is more than a gunman's story. Author Bob Alexander skillfully weaves in Tucker's nervy confrontations with criminals, with the quirky, everyday details of an underpaid lawman living on the edge. Prodigiously researched and documented, Alexander presents a significant Western character heretofore lost to history. His Dan Tucker is no Hollywood hero, but he is extremely competent and supremely dangerous -- if you're an outlaw.

Biographies & Memoirs

Alexander, Bob

Historical

High-Lonesome Books

John H. Behan: Sacrificed Sheriff

John Harris Behan, as author Bob Alexander so capably demonstrates, was a true frontiersman of the early Arizona Territory. Long portrayed as a villain in the Tombstone conflicts, and the nemesis of Wyatt Earp, "Sacrificed Sheriff" presents the story of a 40-year lawman and public servant who was skilled with gun and horse, yet who consistently fought crime and arrested bad guys without killing anyone. Behan also was a Civil War volunteer, twice a Territorial Legislator, and Yuma Prison Superintendent. At an age when some Western "heroes" were mouthing memoirs to journalists, Behan served in the Spanish American War and the Boxer Rebellion. This is the Western lawman that everyone has heard of but no one knows. With rigorous research, copious footnotes, and a lively style, Bob Alexander gives us Johnny Behan in the round.

History

Americas

Fearless Dave Allison: Border Lawman

At 27 William Davis "Dave" Allison became the youngest sheriff in the State of Texas, elected at Midland County in 1888. He was still wearing a badge when gunned down by infamous cattle rustlers Hill Loftis (aka Tom Ross) and Milton Paul Good in 1923. Between times he was 6 times an elected sheriff; a member of the Texas Rangers and Arizona Rangers; Chief of Police at Roswell, New Mexico; personal bodyguard of Colonel William Cornell Green during the vicious 1906 mine strikes at Cananea, Mexico; livestock inspector; and he led the posse that caught and killed Mexican revolutionary Pascual Orozco in 1915. Devoid of bravado, yet fearless, and deadly when provoked, Dave Allison was described by a young cavalryman named George S. Patton as, "The most noted gunman here in Texas."

At 27 William Davis "Dave" Allison became the youngest sheriff in the State of Texas, elected at Midland County in 1888. He was still wearing a badge when gunned down by infamous cattle rustlers Hill Loftis (aka Tom Ross) and Milton Paul Good in 1923. Between times he was 6 times an elected sheriff; a member of the Texas Rangers and Arizona Rangers; Chief of Police at Roswell, New Mexico; personal bodyguard of Colonel William Cornell Green during the vicious 1906 mine strikes at Cananea, Mexico; livestock inspector; and he led the posse that caught and killed Mexican revolutionary Pascual Orozco in 1915. Devoid of bravado, yet fearless, and deadly when provoked, Dave Allison was described by a young cavalryman named George S. Patton as, "The most noted gunman here in Texas."

With prodigious research of the Southwest Borderlands, historian Bob Alexander has herein uncovered the lives of fifteen notable gunmen, most of them largely lost to history—until now. Some of them were tougher than Wyatt Earp, killed more people than Billy the Kid, stole more livestock than Butch Cassidy, took more bullets than Harvey Logan. With a lively style, strict documentation, and a remarkable collection of old photographs, here are the lost gunfighters of the Old Southwest.

Lawmen, Outlaws, and S.O.B.s

Sheriff Harvey Whitehill

A great biography of this 19th century Grant County, NM, sheriff. He jailed Billy the Kid, knew the infamous rustler John Kinney, lived through the Apache Wars, beat Pat Garrett at the polls and helped tame the Wild West.

Bob Alexander

With Sheriff Harvey Whitehill: Silver City Stalwart, author Bob Alexander demonstrates not only that Harvey Whitehill was a major figure in the annals of the Old West, he shows as well that the Sheriff’s home ground of Silver City, in Grant County, New Mexico, rivals Tombstone, Dodge City, and Deadwood as a hotbed of outlaw–lawman history. A bull of a man, Whitehill literally pulled his own wagon on occasion. He also jailed Billy the Kid, knew the infamous rustler John Kinney, lived through the Apache Wars, and beat Pat Garrett at the polls. More detective than gunman, he solved the Gage train robbery. Built at the edge of the Gila Wilderness, mining and cattle town Silver City needed a steady hand to guide it through its most violent years. Harvey Whitehill was that central figure in the community through six terms as elected sheriff.

A superbly researched biography of a town and county. Silver City and Old Grant County's history has not been told before in such fascinating and exciting detail. It's all here - Apaches such as Geronimo, Mangas Coloradas and Victorio, Billy the Kid, the Earps and Kit Joy. Tough lawmen walked Silver City's streets and chased down owlhoots. But the everyday folk are well represented as well: townspeople, miners, soldiers, school teachers and store owners. This corner of New Mexico Territory held all elements of humanity; reading its history is like holding up a mirror to the entire Western adventure.

Six-Guns and Single-Jacks: A History of Silver City and Southwest New Mexico

What qualitites define a leader? How do individuals gain positions of leadership? The former Director of Educational Services and Director o fSlaes for the Zig Ziglar Corporation has worked with scores of business and education leaders over the years. 
Concise and succint, Bob Alexander provides a simple, practical solution to some serious challenges faced by leaders on a daily basis in all walks of life. 
Alexander believes that leaders cannot expect results from others if they are unwilling to produce results themselves. Leaders must set an example for others and maintain a critical matrix of leadership tools. Making It Happen highlights these two requirements for leadership success and provides readers with a roadmap for achievement. 
Executives and managers who want to improve their organizations' ability to work together and be more productive will find solutions in Aleander's book. He recognizes the specila niche held by operational managers who must lead, manage and inspire daily performance and accomplishment in others.

Making It Happen : Leadership Keys for People Who Must Produce Results

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Smyth & Helwys Pub

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Dangerous Dan Tucker: New Mexico's Deadly Lawman

Dangerous Dan Tucker: New Mexico's Deadly Lawman

John H. Behan: Sacrificed Sheriff

Fearless Dave Allison: Border Lawman

Fearless Dave Allison: Border Lawman

Lawmen, Outlaws, and S.O.B.s

Sheriff Harvey Whitehill

Sheriff Harvey Whitehill

Six-Guns and Single-Jacks: A History of Silver City and Southwest New Mexico

Making It Happen : Leadership Keys for People Who Must Produce Results