No Hope for Heaven, No Fear of Hell: The Stafford-Townsend Feud of Colorado County, Texas, 1871-1911 - Couverture rigide

Kearney, James C.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1574416502 ISBN 13 : 9781574416503

Editeur : University of North Texas Press,U.S., 2016

Synopsis

Two family names have come to be associated with the violence that plagued Colorado County, Texas, for decades after the end of the Civil War: the Townsends and the Staffords. Both prominent families amassed wealth and achieved status, but it was their resolve to hold on to both, by whatever means necessary, including extra-legal means, that sparked the feud. Elected office was one of the paths to success, but more important was control of the sheriff's office, which gave one a decided advantage should the threat of gun violence arise.

No Hope for Heaven, No Fear of Hell concentrates on those individual acts of private justice associated with the Stafford and Townsend families. It began with an 1871 shootout in Columbus, followed by the deaths of the Stafford brothers in 1890. The second phase blossomed after 1898 with the assassination of Larkin Hope, and concluded in 1911 with the violent deaths of Marion Hope, Jim Townsend, and Will Clements, all in the space of one month.

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À propos de l'auteur

JAMES C. KEARNEY currently teaches at the University of Texas in Austin. He is the author of Nassau Plantation; co-editor of Journey to Texas, 1833; and translator and editor of Friedrichsburg: The Colony of the German Fürstenverein. BILL STEIN was director and archivist at the Nesbitt Memorial Library in Columbus. JAMES SMALLWOOD was professor of history at Oklahoma State University and the author of more than twenty books on Texas history.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of North Texas Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1574416502
• ISBN 13: 9781574416503
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
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