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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.
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