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Jim Courtright of Fort Worth: His Life and Legend
Robert K. Dearment
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Description for Jim Courtright of Fort Worth: His Life and Legend
Hardcover. Timothy Isaiah "Longhair Jim" Courtright operated on both sides of the law and became a legend in his lifetime and after his death. Robert K. DeArment deconstructs the myth of Longhair Jim and reconstructs the gunfighter as a real human being, complex, flawed, often courageous, usually both honorable and dishonorable. Num Pages: 256 pages, 36 b&w photgraphs, maps, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 3JH; BG; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 544.
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 characters from the wild and woolly days of Fort Worth's Hell's Half Acre, Courtright was at various times city marshal, deputy sheriff, deputy U.S. marshal, private detective, hired killer, and racketeer. Today, he is almost forgotten, either as a gunfighter or a lawman, except in Fort Worth. Little is known about Courtright's early life, though he apparently served in the Union army during the Civil War, But when he arrived in the ... Read more
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 characters from the wild and woolly days of Fort Worth's Hell's Half Acre, Courtright was at various times city marshal, deputy sheriff, deputy U.S. marshal, private detective, hired killer, and racketeer. Today, he is almost forgotten, either as a gunfighter or a lawman, except in Fort Worth. Little is known about Courtright's early life, though he apparently served in the Union army during the Civil War, But when he arrived in the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Fort Worth, United States
ISBN
9780875652924
SKU
V9780875652924
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About Robert K. Dearment
Robert K. DeArment has made a lifelong study of the establishment of law on the American frontier and the gunfighters, outlaws, and lawmen who were part of that story. He is the author of numerous books and articles and a member of Western Writers of America, Inc., the Western Outlaw-Lawman History Association, and the National Association for Outlaws and Lawman ... Read more
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