01605cam a2200301 4500 264261096 TxAuBib 20160604120000.0 060216s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2006005618 9780896725799 hardcover : alk. paper 0896725790 hardcover : alk. paper (OCoLC)64390422 TxAuBib Neal, Bill, 1936- Getting away with murder on the Texas frontier : notorious killings & celebrated trials / Bill Neal ; foreword by Gordon Morris Bakken. Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, 2006. xix, 308 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-295) and index. "Longtime Texas prosecutor and defense attorney mines trial records and other primary sources to analyze murder trials from 1880 through WWI in West Texas and Oklahoma. Addresses not only legal and illegal ploys but also inherent pitfalls for a nascent criminal justice system in a frontier society. Historical photographs"--Provided by publisher. 20160604. Trials (Murder) Texas. Criminal justice, Administration of Texas History Sources. Frontier and pioneer life Texas Sources. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip069/2006005618.html Table of contents only http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0f2y7-aa Book review (H-Net) TXWIT