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Old West Book Review: You Are Respectfully Invited to Attend My Execution
You Are Respectfully Invited to Attend My Execution, Larry K. Brown, High Plains Press, (1-800-552-7819), $11.95, Paperback. Between 1871 and 1890, seven murderers were hanged in Wyoming Territory. Some others died (including one woman) in Wyoming at the hands of angry mobs, known as vigilantes. However, this book concentrates on the seven legal executions. Author […]
Wild Bill Hickok Married
Wild Bill Hickok had lived the life of a free-spirited man hunting buffalo, being a lawman, gambling and even a stint as an actor. By the time he was 38 Wild Bill’s eyesight was going bad. For his own safety and the safety of others, he gave up being a lawman. And his attempt to […]
Old West Book Review: My Ranch, Too
My Ranch, Too. A Wyoming Memoir, Mary Budd Flitner, University of Oklahoma Press, $24.95, Cloth. 2 maps, 23 Photos, 232 pages. There are not many books that I read twice, but My Ranch, Too is one of them. If you have ever lived on a ranch, or handled horses, dogs, cattle or sheep, or even […]
Crook’s Starvation March
It was June of 1876. About 1,000 Sioux and Cheyenne attacked General George Crook and 1,400 soldiers in what was to be called the Battle of the Rosebud. Although the battle ended in a tie, the Indians fled, and Crook, licking his wounds, chose not to immediately follow them. Finally, after a month and a […]
I See By Your Outfit, Historic Cowboy Gear of the Northern Plains
I See By Your Outfit, Historic Cowboy Gear of the Northern Plains, Tom Lindmier & Steve Mount, High Plains Press, Glendo, Wyoming. $19.95, Paperback. Photos, Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. Here is yet another non-fiction winner published by High Plains Press. Authors Tom Lindmier and Steve Mount have joined forces, writing a wonderfully accurate book filled with […]
