Sam Bass

"The world is bobbing around," said Sam Bass the day he died. The day was Sunday, July 21, 1878—Sam's twenty-seventh birthday. Sam had done considerable bobbing around himself. He had been a cowboy, a gambler, a highwayman, and a train robber before he met his fate at Round Rock. His coups were many; his fame legendary. And the strangest thing of all is that he never killed a man until that last gunfight.

History

GARD, Wayne

Americas

University Of Nebraska Press

"Its history and drama, and its role in the opening of the West, by Wayne Gard." Illustrated by Nick Eggenhofer. 5x8" 324 pages profusely, historic photos and drawings and art reproductions illustrated. Copyright 1959, stated First Bison Book printing 1968, this 7 8 9 10.published by University of Nebraska Press.

The Great Buffalo Hunt

Univ of Nebraska Pr

"The world is bobbing around," said Sam Bass the day he died. The day was Sunday, July 21, 1878—Sam's twenty-seventh birthday. Sam had done considerable bobbing around himself. He had been a cowboy, a gambler, a highwayman, and a train robber before he met his fate at Round Rock. His coups were many; his fame legendary. And the strangest thing of all is that he never killed a man until that last gunfight.

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Bison Books

Frontier Justice

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

For more than a dozen tempestuous years, beginning in 1867, the Chisholm Trail was the Texas cowhand’s road to high adventure.  It offered the excitement of sudden stampedes, hazardous river crossings, and brushes with Indian marauders.  It promised, at the end of the drive, hilarious celebrations in the saloons, gambling parlors, and dance halls of frontier Kansas towns.The account that appears on these pages reveals the courage, daring, and enterprise of the cattle owners and their cowboys, establishing them firmly as heroes in the westward expansion.

The Chisholm Trail

University of Oklahoma Press

For more than a dozen tempestuous years, beginning in 1867, the Chisholm Trail was the Texas cowhand’s road to high adventure. It offered the excitement of sudden stampedes, hazardous river crossings, and brushes with Indian marauders. It promised, at the end of the drive, hilarious celebrations in the saloons, gambling parlors, and dance halls of frontier Kansas towns. The account that appears on these pages reveals the courage, daring, and enterprise of the cattle owners and their cowboys, establishing them firmly as heroes in the westward expansion.

Midnight raids, blazing six-shooters, and dangling ropes played frequent and vital roles in the taming of the West. And in this true account of justice—and sometimes vengeance—on the frontier, Wayne Gard ably relates how determined frontiersmen and heroic women achieved order before they had formal law.
Colorful Roy Bean, most famous of the frontier oracles, who dispensed liquor with one hand and justice with the other, stalks through the pages, along with Sam Houston, Watt Moorman, Judge Almond (who would not tolerate long speeches by lawyers because they cut down on his fine), the feuding Grahams and Tewksburys, and Jacksons and Goodbreads, with their violent outbreaks of killing.
Frontier Justice was among the books chosen by a committee of distinguished scholars for inclusion in the permanent White House Liberty of important American books on the nation’s history.

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Sam Bass

The Great Buffalo Hunt

Sam Bass

Frontier Justice

The Chisholm Trail

The Chisholm Trail

Frontier Justice