books by Robert K. Dearment     books:       Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait37 reviews Karen Holliday Tanner University of Oklahoma Press, 2001 For the big Holliday Picture, April 11, 2007 Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait is well researched and written. Karen Holliday Tanner draws on family history, papers, albums and oral stories to augment hard research.Through her exhaustive efforts, Ms. Tanner puts to rest some of the wild exaggerations of killings, life of a con man, and criminal schemes supposedly perpetrated by Doc during his life. Young John Henry Holliday's early days ...             Bravo of the Brazos: John Larn of Fort Griffin, Texas2 reviews Robert K. Dearment University of Oklahoma Press, 2005 A fascinating tale of power and corruption Bravo Of The Brazos: John Larn Of Fort Griffin, Texas by independent scholar Robert K. DeArment is the true life story of John Larn, a colorful Texas lawman turned frontier outlaw. No stranger to shootouts, Larn led a vigilante committee with widespread support and killed at least a dozen men before he turned 29. At first his killing of horse or cattle thieves on sight garnered approval, but then ...             Deadly Dozen: Twelve Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West3 reviews Robert K. Dearment University of Oklahoma Press, 2003 A real treat for American frontier history buffs Because of the movies and television shows, when it comes to gunslingers on either side of the law, we all know of the "headline stars" of the American frontier such as Wyatt Earp, Bill the Kid, and Doc Holliday. What western history expert Robert K. DeArment has done in Deadly Dozen: Twelve Forgotten Gunfighters Of The Old West is to present the lives and deeds of twelve gunman who were ...             Jim Courtright of Fort Worth: His Life and Legend2 reviews Robert K. Dearment Texas Christian University Press, 2004 In Every Life Time A Legend Is Born In every life time it seems a legend is born and in the town of Fort Worth, Longhair Jim made his way through the streets. Longhair Jim was the name people called him, but by birth his name was Timothy Isaiah Courtright. Not a lot was known about Timothy's early years, the years when he was only known as Timothy Isaiah Courtright. That all changed, it seemed that Forth Worth had another name ...             Bat Masterson: The Man and the Legend11 reviews Robert K. Dearment University of Oklahoma Press, 1989 Well researched and written book about a western icon This is a well researched and written book about a western icon. Unlike many westerns, this one is a very interesting read - sharing not only the life of Bat Masterson but the gunfighters and others who lived around them and their experiences. For example, a whole chapter is on Jim Masterson and his experiences in southern Kansas and Colorado in the late nineteenth century. Although the book ...             KNIGHTS OF THE GREEN CLOTH: The Saga of the Frontier Gamblers1 review Robert, K DeArment University of Oklahoma Press, 1982 Gamblers of the Old West KNIGHTS OF THE GREEN CLOTH is a history book that reads like a novel. Many famous and infamous names are included in the telling as the men and women of chance follow the westward trek of the pioneer wagons and gold seekers. A gold strike and they arrived, set up their tents, opened their games, and dealt the cards. The lobe pays out and they are gone to the next gulch or return home. Some did ...             Buffalo Hunters2 reviews Charles M. Robinson III, Robert K. DeArment TX A&M-McWhiney Foundation, 1995 The only good buffalo is a dead buffalo... Robinson's book is a wonderful introduction to the sorry nineteenth-century tale of the near extinction of buffalo in the Great Plains and Texas Panhandle. The bulk of the destruction occurred in the 1870s and 1880s. Most of the buffalo were killed either for their pelts--this was especially the case with the northern herds--or, in the case of the southern herds, for their hides, which were ...             Deadly Dozen: Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West3 reviews Robert K. Dearment University of Oklahoma Press, 2007 Well Researched Book for the Reader Interested in Old West History This is a well researched book written by, who I consider, the best historian of the old West gunfighters, lawmen and bad men, having written books about Bat Masterson and Frank Canton, to name a couple. This is the author's second book on this topic of finding and researching lesser known gunfighters and I must say that, in my opinion, the first book is better. This may be because of the ...             Ballots And Bullets: The Bloody County Seat Wars of Kansas Robert K. Dearment University of Oklahoma Press, 2006 "Bleeding Kansas" has earned its name. A state already scarred from the violence wrought by the likes of John Brown and William Quantrill, Kansas witnessed further episodes of wanton bloodshed in the late nineteenth century when settlers poured into a supposedly peaceful frontier. Focusing on the tumultuous years 1885-1892, Robert K. DeArment's compelling narrative is the first to reveal the complete story of the county seat wars that raged ...             Gunsmoke in Lincoln County (Outlaw-Lawman Research Series, V. 2)1 review Philip J. Rasch Western Pubns, 1997 Pioneer shows bias Rasch was clearly a dogged researcher and a pioneer in many avenues of researching and writing on the Lincoln County troubles. Unfortunately, this collection of his Brand Book essays, valuable as it is, shows his blind spot - a bias against the McSweens, Tunstall, and Billy, that sours his evaluations and his prose. His writing is competent and engaging, though the collection over several ...             George Scarborough: The Life and Death of a Lawman on the Closing Frontier1 review Robert K. Dearment University of Oklahoma Press, 1996 A great man lives on Thanks to Robert K. Dearment a little recognised brave Lawman comes to life. George Scarborough was my Grandmothers uncle and as an expat American with little knowledge of my family this book has been a wonderful experience and a great help to me. Robert Dearment explains life and times in New Mexico and surrounding areas in such a way that you are transported back to that time. Many of the ...             Broadway Bat: Gunfighter in Gotham the New York City Years of Bat Masterson1 review Robert K. Dearment Talei Publishers, 2006 Bat Masterson, one of the guys and dolls of New York history Few think of Bat Masterson as a New Yorker. But he spent 20 years there, rubbing shoulders with Louella Parsons and Damon Runyon and all the other sporting guys and dolls of Manhattan. A sporting man to his last, Bat's sports column for the NEW YORK MORNING TELEGRAPH was a favorite of New Yorkers who followed the fights and the races. Bob DeArment, who wrote the principal general biography of ...             Life Of The Marlows: A True Story of Frontier Life of Early Days (A.C. Greene Series)1 review Robert K. Dearment, William Rathmell University of North Texas Press, 2004 A worthy addition to any western history collection Life of the Marlows: A True Story of Frontier Life of Early Days is a true tale of the American West, now back in print and featuring expert annotation by historian Robert K. DeArment, chronicling the lives of the five Marlow brothers and their downfall in Young County, Texas. After one Marlow brother killed a well-liked sheriff and was subsequently slaughtered by bounty hunters, the other four ...              search for books ballots, broadway, buffalo, bullets, closing, courtright, deadly, forgotten, frontier, gamblers, george, greene, griffin, gunfighter, gunfighters, gunsmoke, holliday, hunters, kansas, knights, lawman, legend, lincoln, marlows, masterson, outlaw-lawman, portrait, research, scarborough, series books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Lung Cancer: Myths, Facts, Choices--and Hope we recommend Well researched and written book about a western icon leave a comment home  impressum - about us