Red River Prosecutor: True Cases of Oklahoma Crime

By Kenneth D. Bacon

Former Oklahoma judge takes you on a wild journey through the seething hellhole of "The Strip," just across the border from Texas. Bacon tells of his hair-raising experiences with the dangerous and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1880090147
• ISBN13: 9781880090145
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Galde Press, Inc.
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Marshal & Love County in the 60's!

My step father was an attorney in Madill and mother worked for him and the court systems in Marshall County during the time this books describes. They both worked with everyone in this book on a daily basis and I remember many of these stories myself. This book proves that fact is stranger than fiction because mom talked about these incidents and said there were many that were wilder than these! Oil field workers, indians and just plain folks, everything was from a different time than anyone can imagine today.

Love County History told by an actual participant

This book was recommended to my husband and I by some dear friends who have lived in Marietta for about 30 years. If you like true accounts of 'daily life in a small town,' then this is definitely the book for you. My husband, who is not an avid reader, could hardly put this book down. Fortunately for me, it only took him about a week to finish it. Once I got hold of it, I read late into the nite, and first thing in the mornings before our day got started. We also live outside a small town, only in Texas, and our neighbors, having heard about the book from my husband, are lined up to borrow it. Would make a nice gift for those who like true crime, historical accounts. Not for those under 16, though, a little graphic in parts........

remembering the past

Red River Prosecutor recalls the true incidents of the wild and woolly 1960's and 70's in Love County, Oklahoma. The stories hold the reader spellbound with their intensity and their realness. I know because I was a teenager who grew up there and lived in the community during those crazy times. I can assure the readers that all the events are accurate. Most of the people described in the book I knew personally. Judge Bacon masterfully recalls the personalties with great detail and as I look back some 30 years the events are brought back vividly. This is better than any fiction fairytale of crime and its consequences. You will never regret your time spent with this account of taming rural Oklahoma.

The book is true, it's graphic, it's real life and a must.

Today a retired Settlement Conference Judge for the Oklahoma Supreme Court, Ken Bacon, the author is an author with a unique life story. His collection of personal memories is not some staid history of mid-20th century legal procedures. Red River Prosecutor is the two-fisted tale of one man's fight to wrench order out of the chaos in the toughest are of America's wildest state. What sets Red River Prosecutor apart is the author. The product of a broken home, he fought through an abandoned and parentless childhood, survived the bloody and violent oilfields of Kansas and Oklahoma and by sheer gut's, went on to become the Chief Judge for all Courts of Appeal in Oklahoma. Red River Prosecutor is all true, it's graphic and it is real life. The book review in the Oklahoma City newspapaer The Daily Oklahoman, April 7, 1996 said it best: "This is a TV miniseries, for sure. Even better if it could star the author."