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Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier
Bill Neal
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Description for Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier
Paperback. Laws passed by politicians in far-off Austin meant little to Westerners living on the Texas frontier. This title presents the evidence that shows how easy some folks found it to evade justice in the frontier West. Num Pages: 328 pages, 49 b/w photos, 3 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
In 1916, in the tiny West Texas town of Benjamin, a gunman slips into a courtroom and murders the defendant. In 1912, in Fort Worths finest hotel, a young man kills an old gentleman in cold blood in the middle of the lobby. The verdict in both of these murderers trials? Not guilty. The explanation? This is Texas. Laws passed by politicians in far-off Austin meant little to Westerners living on the Texas frontier. Sagebrush justice relied less on written statutes than on common sense, grass-roots fairness, and vague notions of folk law drawn from the Old Souths Victorian code ... Read more
In 1916, in the tiny West Texas town of Benjamin, a gunman slips into a courtroom and murders the defendant. In 1912, in Fort Worths finest hotel, a young man kills an old gentleman in cold blood in the middle of the lobby. The verdict in both of these murderers trials? Not guilty. The explanation? This is Texas. Laws passed by politicians in far-off Austin meant little to Westerners living on the Texas frontier. Sagebrush justice relied less on written statutes than on common sense, grass-roots fairness, and vague notions of folk law drawn from the Old Souths Victorian code ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Texas, United States
ISBN
9780896726512
SKU
V9780896726512
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About Bill Neal
Bill Neal practiced criminal law in West Texas for forty years: twenty as a prosecutor and twenty as a defense attorney. Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier was named Book of the Year for 2008 by the National Association for Outlaw and Lawmen History, received the Rupert N. Richardson Award for the best book on West Texas history ... Read more
Reviews for Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier
For collectors of Southwest and Texas frontier history, this book needs to be on your bookshelf.
Ross McSwain, San Angelo Standard-Times, Nov. 5, 2006 ""Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier is a delightful read, a worthwhile visit to a time and place in Texas history... Bill Neal has offered something special in this collection of legal anecdotes: a ... Read more
Ross McSwain, San Angelo Standard-Times, Nov. 5, 2006 ""Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier is a delightful read, a worthwhile visit to a time and place in Texas history... Bill Neal has offered something special in this collection of legal anecdotes: a ... Read more