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| Heroes and outlaws profiled in new books - Abilene Reporter-News Posted: 27 Nov 2010 08:16 PM PST This week let's talk about heroes and outlaws and some who may have been both. Several new books deal with the subjects in a variety of ways. Turner Publishing has issued two volumes in its historic photos series "Historic Photos of Heroes of the Old West" by Austin author Mike Cox and "Historic Photos of Outlaws of the Old West" by Oklahoma City author Larry Johnson. Both are 10 ¼ by 10 ¼, run about 200 pages, and are priced at $39.95. In his book Cox groups the pictures into these chapters: The Pathfinders; The Pioneers; They Spanned a Continent; The Civilizers; and Purveyors of the Myth. Johnson catalogs his photos under these headings: We Were Driven to It; I'm Not Afraid to Die like a Man Fighting, but I Would Not like to Be Killed like a Dog Unarmed; We Never Sleep; and If He'd Just Pay Me What He's Paying Them to Keep Me from Robbing Him, I'd Quit Robbing Him. In both volumes, the photos and captions give a good glimpse of life, on both sides of the law, in the wild west. The University of North Texas Press has published three books of interest to readers of western lore. "The Johnson-Sims Feud: Romeo and Juliet, West Texas Style" by Bill O'Neal ($24.95 hardcover) takes place in Snyder, Sweetwater and other West Texas locales and revolves around the troubled marriage of 14-year-old Gladys Johnson and 21-year-old Ed Sims in 1905. After a nasty divorce and contentious custody battle, Gladys gunned down Ed on the street in Snyder. The shooting, writes O'Neal, "triggered the last blood feud in Texas." O'Neal is a prolific author on western history, with more than 25 books to his credit. "Savage Frontier, Volume IV, 1842-1845: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas" by Stephen L. Moore ($34.95 hardcover, $19.95 paperback) wraps up the thoroughly researched Savage Frontier series covering the history of the Texas Rangers and frontier warfare in the Republic of Texas era. Previous volumes dealt with the years 1835-37, 1838-39, and 1840-41. "Written in Blood: The History of Fort Worth's Fallen Lawmen: Volume 1, 1861-1909" by Richard F. Seller and Kevis S. Foster ($39.95 hardcover, $16.95 paperback) tells the stories of the first 13 of 84 Fort Worth lawmen who have been killed in the line of duty. The book was written as a companion to a monument erected in Fort Worth honoring them. Future volumes will profile the other officers who died serving their community, some more honorably than others. Some of the early "cowboy cops," the authors note, "were not nice men, and while they could be brave, even heroic, they were hardly role models." G. R. Williamson is the author of "Texas Pistoleers: The True Story of Ben Thompson and King Fisher" (The History Press, $19.99 paperback). Thompson and Fisher were feared desperadoes who killed several men in gunfights, always claiming they were just defending themselves. But around midnight of March 11, 1884, the gunmen were themselves gunned down at the Vaudeville Theater in San Antonio. Witnesses said they were killed in self-defense and no charges were brought. But other witnesses claimed the two gunfighters had been set up and ambushed by hired assassins. Williamson sets out to separate truth from myth. Glenn Dromgoole writes about Texas books and authors. Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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