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Author Dolan, Samuel K., author.

Title Cowboys and gangsters : stories from an untamed Southwest / Samuel K. Dolan.

Publication Info. Guilford, Connecticut : TwoDot, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource (353 pages) : illustrations
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Six-guns & automobiles -- The wail of the bootlegger -- Cold in death -- The toughest town on the Santa Fe -- Purity squad -- Manhunt -- Dry agents -- Liquor war on the Rio Grande -- Where roughnecks are needed -- "Honor first" -- "You were looking for me last night" -- Contrabandistas -- Brave men.
Summary "Utilizing official records, newspaper accounts, and oral histories, this book tells the story of the untamed Wild West of the Prohibition era (1920s-1930s) and introduces a gallery of Western gunfighters and lawmen"--Provided by publisher.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Prohibition -- Southwest, New.
Outlaws -- Southwest, New -- Biography.
Gangsters -- Southwest, New -- Biography.
Peace officers -- Southwest, New -- Biography.
Crime -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century.
Southwest, New -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Southwest, New -- Biography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Dolan, Samuel K. Cowboys and gangsters : stories from an untamed Southwest. Guilford, Connecticut : TwoDot, 2016 9781442246690
ISBN 9781442246690 (paperback)
9781442246706 (e-book)

 
    
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