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Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings and Celebrated Trials Paperback / softback - 2009
by Bill Neal
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- Title Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings and Celebrated Trials
- Author Bill Neal
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Condition New
- Pages 328
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock
- Date 2009-04-01
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # B9780896726512
- ISBN 9780896726512 / 0896726517
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Texas
- Library of Congress subjects Frontier and pioneer life - Texas, Trials (Murder) - Texas
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006005618
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.152
From the jacket flap
Laws passed by politicians in far-off Austin meant little to Westerners living on the Texas frontier. Sagebrush justice relied less on written statutes than on common sense, grass-roots fairness, and vague notions of folk law drawn from the Old South's Victorian code of chivalry and honor. In this very different time and place, a murderer might go free based on the following reasoning: "The son-of-a-gun is guilty all right, but we must turn him loose. He owes me for a pair of boots, and if we convict him I'll never get my money."
Inexperienced prosecutors, a lack of modern crime-detection methods, unavailability of witnesses, an acceptance of violence in society, and a laissez-faire attitude toward trial tactics all conspired to make guilty verdicts a rarity. In this first volume of a planned trilogy, Neal presents the evidence that shows how easy some folks found it to evade justice in the frontier West.