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The Deadliest Outlaws
Jeffrey Burton
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Description for The Deadliest Outlaws
Paperback. Series: A.C. Greene. Num Pages: 560 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 885.
After Tom Ketchum had been sentenced to death for attempting to hold up a railway train, his attorneys argued that the penalty was “cruel and unusual” for the offence charged. The appeal failed and he became the first individual—and the last—ever to be executed for a crime of this sort. He was hanged in 1901; in a macabre ending to his life of crime, his head was torn away by the rope as he fell from the gallows.
Tom Ketchum was born in 1863 on a farm near the fringe of the Texas frontier. At the age of ... Read more
After Tom Ketchum had been sentenced to death for attempting to hold up a railway train, his attorneys argued that the penalty was “cruel and unusual” for the offence charged. The appeal failed and he became the first individual—and the last—ever to be executed for a crime of this sort. He was hanged in 1901; in a macabre ending to his life of crime, his head was torn away by the rope as he fell from the gallows.
Tom Ketchum was born in 1863 on a farm near the fringe of the Texas frontier. At the age of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of North Texas Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
Series
A.C. Greene
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
Denton, United States
ISBN
9781574414745
SKU
V9781574414745
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About Jeffrey Burton
Jeffrey Burton, an honours graduate of London University, is an independent scholar living in England. He is a vice president of the English Westerners’ Society and the author of Bureaucracy, Blood Money, and Black Jack’s Gang; Indian Territory and the United States, 1866-1906; Constable Dodge and the Pantano Train Robbers; and Western Story.
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