Grady e mccright and james h powell (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good +. 1st Edition. 239pp. inc. index. Two small closed tears to Dj.Book & text As new.Clean brown boards / gilt lettering at spine. Text is clean with tight binding, no marks or tears. includes many photographs. includes the Lincoln County war. 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Leather. Condizione: Like New. Creative PublishingCompany, College Station, 1983. 1 st edition, #18 of 25 leatherbound copies, numbered, limited, signed by bothauthors. Introduction by Irving Metzman, 240 pp, Authors? Preface, Acknowledgements, illustrated with photos, sketches, maps, facsimiles of documents, appendices, bibliography, index, brief bios & photos of authors. Little isknown about Jessie Evans? early life, but when he drifted into New Mexico Territory in 1872, he entered the pages of outlaw history. He learned the rustler trade under John Chisum, and became a close friend of Billy Antrim(Bonney), better known as Billy the Kid. As outlaws, the pair did well. Wherever they wandered, cattle and horsesdisappeared, and dead men littered their trail. When the notorious Lincoln County War erupted in 1878, Jessie andBilly somehow wound up on opposite sides. It is likely that it was Jessie who murdered John Henry Tunstall,generally regarded as the opening shot in the War. After the War had run its course, Jessie drifted back to Texas,continuing to rustle. This led to a shoot-out with Texas Rangers, and Jessie was captured and sent to the TexasPenitentiary. In less than 17 months, Jessie escaped from prison, and disappeared. This is the only complete accountever published of his career. Signed by Author.…

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First Edition. Octavo. First printing limited to 1500 copies. Evans was an outlaw, a hired gunfighter and cattle rustler who stood up to Billy the Kid.239(1)pp. bound in brown cloth simulating leather, spine lettering gilt. A fine pristine copy in equally fine pictorial dust jacket.