Jim Courtright of Fort Worth : His Life and Legend

by DEARMENT ROBERT K.

• ISBN13: 9780875652924
• ISBN10: 0875652921
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

Author Biography

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 History. He has been honored for his writing by both WOLA and NOLA. He makes his home in Sylvania, Ohio

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
CHAPTER 1 The Legend and the Legend Makers	1	(16)
CHAPTER 2 Marshal of Panther City	17	(28)
CHAPTER 3 Policing the Bloody Third	45	(24)
CHAPTER 4 The Texas Detective Bureau and the Hunt for Sam Bass	69	(14)
CHAPTER 5 "A Clash of Giants"	83	(24)
CHAPTER 6 Lake Valley Marshal	107	(20)
CHAPTER 7 The American Valley Murders	127	(26)
CHAPTER 8 The Great Escape	153	(20)
CHAPTER 9 The Fugitive	173	(20)
CHAPTER 10 The Battle of Buttermilk Switch	193	(10)
CHAPTER 11 Enter Luke Short	203	(14)
CHAPTER 12 Death of a Gunman - Birth of a Legend	217	(20)
Afterword	237	(8)
Notes	245	(22)
Bibliography	267	(8)
Index	275