| George Scarborough: The Life and Death of a Lawman on the Closing Frontier Revised Edition Contributor(s): Dearment, Robert K. (Author), Metz, Leon (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 080612850X ISBN-13: 9780806128504 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press OUR PRICE: $21.73 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2019 Annotation: "George Scarborough is a significant addition to the bookshelf of any student of Western History" -- Bill O'Neal, Journal of Arizona History. "DeArment successfully captures the disorder, the rootlessness, the shifting alliances, the clumsy yet deadly violence of the frontier". -- Paula Mitchell Marks, Journal of American History. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Law Enforcement |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 91030145 |
| Physical Information: 1.02" H x 5.3" W x 8.32" (0.95 lbs) 340 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Now, for the first time, Robert K. DeArment has told the full story of George Scarborough's life, illuminating his activity as a lawman during the final part of the nineteenth century and his controversial killings while wearing the badge-he was tried for murder on three occasions and acquitted each time. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dearment, Robert K.: - Robert K. DeArment is a University of Toledo, Ohio, graduate whose field of interest is nineteenth-century American history with special emphasis on outlaws and law enforcement in the frontier West. He is the author of Bat Masterson: The Man and the Legend and the three-volume Deadly Dozen: Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, published by the University of Oklahoma Press. |