{"product_id":"oklahombres-particularly-the-wilder-ones-paperback","title":"Oklahombres: Particularly the Wilder Ones - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEvett Dumas Nix\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGary L. Roberts\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eGordon Hines\u003c\/b\u003e (As Told to)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGangs 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. Oklahombres, originally published in 1929, is an authentic history of human wildness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNix 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroducing this Bison Book edition is Gary L. Roberts, a professor of history at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College and the author of \u003ci\u003eDeath Comes for the Chief Justice: The Slough-Rynerson Quarrel and Political Violence in New Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e (1990).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 316\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 8.06 x 5.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 19, 1993\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42131226001543,"sku":"9780803283664","price":23.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/157f372f8fd347ae08c6366aab226aa8.webp?v=1732617350","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/oklahombres-particularly-the-wilder-ones-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}