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Paperback. Etat : UsedVeryGood. Softcover; 2nd printing of a 1977 copyright; light fading, light shelf wear to exterior; otherwise in very good condition with clean text, firm bindin g.

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Poor. 1st Edition. University of Nebraska Press / A Bison Book, Lincoln, NE. 1993. Softcover / Trade Wraps. Stated First Bison Book printing 1993/ First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 280 pp 8vo. Reprinted from the original 1929 edition published by Eden Publishing House, St. Louis. The author was a former US Marshal in Old Oklahoma Territory and the Cherokee Strip. Gangs of outlaws were overrunning Oklahoma Territory when E. D. Nix was appointed U.S. marshal in 1893. His memoir evokes a time and place that brought criminals and merchants and cowpunchers and settlers together, often explosively. This book is an authentic history of human wildness. In these pages the Dalton brothers are shown in full career, as well as the Doolin gang, Bitter Creek Newcomb, Henry Starr, Cattle Annie, Rolla Kapp, Dick Yeager, the Jennings boys, and a large cast of cattle thieves, counterfeiters, and whiskey peddlers. Lawmen are no less memorable than the lawless: Bill Tilghman, Chris Madsen, and Heck Thomas are among the deputies who help Nix in his cleaning-up campaign. Adding to the richness of this account of early days in Oklahoma Territory are such personages as Judge Isaac Parker, Rose of Cimarron, and Chief Bacon Rind of the Osage Indians. A clean very presentable copy. Nix himself emerges as a public official of great integrity. Because of his adherence to a code of honor, he could later say that during his administration "not a single man was killed who was not a notorious lawbreaker." Perhaps his proudest moment came when he fired the gun that sent homesteaders rushing into the Cherokee Strip on September 16, 1893. That scene, described with cinematic vividness, is one of many high points in Oklahombres.…

Etat : very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail.…

Hardcover with DJ. Etat : Acceptable. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDAcceptable, paperback, former library book, with library stamps, discoloration, 233 pages, 8vo.

Hardcover. 279 p. Good condition. Reading pages are clean and without marks. Retired library exemplar, with the usual marking. Corners slightly rubbed or bumped. Still good copy. 9780808909255 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 499.

Etat : Very Good. Very Good Condition. Clean, tight and Neat. Five star seller - Buy with confidence.

Etat : Usado. Etat de la jaquette : Rústica. 1ª. Pág./pages:283 500 gramos/grams Idioma/Language:Castellano 16 x 23 x 1.