Thunder over the Prairie : The True Story of a Murder and a Manhunt by the Greatest Posse of All Time

by Enss, Chris; Kazanjian, Howard

• ISBN13: 9780762744930
• ISBN10: 0762744936
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-02
• Publisher: TwoDot

Summary

The year was 1878. Future legends of the Old West-lawmen Charlie Bassett, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, and Bill Tilghman-patrolled the unruly streets of Dodge City, Kansas, then known as "the wickedest little city in America."

Author Biography

Howard Kazanjian and Chris Enss have coauthored three other books for Two Dot/Globe Pequot, including The Young Duke.

 

Kazanjian is an award-winning producer and entertainment executive who for three decades has produced television programs and feature films, including Raiders of the Lost Ark and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. He lives in San Marino, California.

 

Enss is an award-winning screenwriter and the author or coauthor of more than a dozen books. She lives in Grass Valley, California.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. viii
Acknowledgments	p. x
Introduction	p. xi
Murder of a Nightingale	p. 1
Cold-Blooded Assassin	p. 15
A Posse on the Move	p. 29
Thunder Over the Prairie	p. 41
Caught in a Storm	p. 52
Beyond the River	p. 68
Waiting for a Killer	p. 82
Captured	p. 94
The Gunman's Trial	p. 104
End of the Trail	p. 117
Notes	p. 129
Bibliography	p. 136
Index	p. 141
About the Authors	p. 145
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Excerpts

From Chapter One: Murder of a Nightingale

 

"Some of the proprieties were carefully observed... for example, a woman, no matter whether she was a housewife, a dance hall girl or even a courtesn (and mind you, the last two were not necessarily the same), was treated with grave courtesy on the street. Any man who failed to observe this canon got into trouble."

--Actor Eddie Foy concerning the ladies in Dodge City, Kansas,1913

 

Dora Hand was in a deep sleep. Her bare legs were exposed under her thick blankets, and a mass of long, auburn hair stretched over her pillow and flowed off the side of her flimsy mattress. A framed, charcoal portrait of an elderly couple hung above her bed on the faded wallpaper and kept company with her slumber.

The air outside the window next to the picture was still adn cold. The distant sound of voices, back-slapping laughter, profanity, and a piano's tinny, repetitious melody wafted down the main thoroughfare in Dodge City, Kansas, and into the small room.

Dodge was an all-night town. Walkers and loungers kept the streets and saloons busy. Residents learned to sleep throught the giggling, growling, and gunplay of the cowboy consumers and their paramours for hire. Dora was accustomed to the nightly frivolity and the clatter. Her dreams were seldom disturbed by the commotion.

All at once, the smack of a pair of bullets cutting through the walls of the tiny room cut into the routine nightly noises of the cattle town with a gusty violence. The first bullet stuck in the dense plaster partition that formed the room's perimeter. The second struck Dora on the right side, just under her arm. There was no time for her to object to the injury; no moment for her to cry out or recoil in pain. The slug killed her instantly.

In the near distance, a horse squealed and its galloping hooves echoed off the street and faded away.

 

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Excerpted from Thunder over the Prairie: The True Story of a Murder and a Manhunt by the Greatest Posse of All Time by Howard Kazanjian, Chris Enss
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