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The Fighting Marlows: Men Who Wouldn't Be Lynched

The Fighting Marlows: Men Who Wouldn't Be Lynched - Paperback

by Glenn Shirley
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Availability:In StockContributor:Glenn ShirleySeries:Chisholm Trail #12Publish date:2009-09-21Pages:188
Language:EnglishPublisher:Texas Christian University PressISBN-13:9780875654041ISBN-10:875654045UPC:9780875654041Book Category:True Crime, HistoryBook Subcategory:United StatesBook Topic:19th Century, State & LocalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SCCJN33HJZ
Many people in northern Texas and southwestern Oklahoma still believe that the Marlow brothers--George, Charles, Alf, and Epp--were thieves and killers. In 1888 they were charged with rustling and murder, tried by public opinion, and betrayed by law officials responsible for their safety. After Alf and Epp were killed in a brutal ambush, Charles and George accomplished a grisly escape, only to be caught and sent to Dallas for trial where, for their own protection, they were deputized as marshals.

Their story, as lurid and adventuresome as any western saga, documents late nineteenth-century law enforcement in the Southwest. The Marlows' fight for justice was dramatized in the movie, The Sons of Katie Elder.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Texas Christian University PressISBN-13:9780875654041ISBN-10:875654045UPC:9780875654041Book Category:True Crime, HistoryBook Subcategory:United StatesBook Topic:19th Century, State & LocalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SCCJN33HJZ
Shirley, Glenn: -

Historian GLENN SHIRLEY was the author of more than twenty books and eight-hundred short stories and articles, having written about such frontier figures as Belle Starr, Pawnee Bill, Temple Houston, and Heck Thomas. The recipient of several writing awards, he lived in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Publisher: Texas Christian University Press

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