Rowdy Joe Lowe: Gambler with a Gun

by Joseph G. Rosa, Joe G. Rosa, Waldo E. Koop

Book Overview

A view into the smoke-filled saloons, brothels, and gambling "hells" of the frontier West

Joseph Lowe attracted trouble the way a magnet draws iron. Eventually this strange talent cost him his life, but not before he had made his mark in a good many towns of the frontier West. "Rowdy Joe," folks called him. He was every bit of that and more.

The life that earned him his nickname began after the Civil War, when he mustered out of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806139625
• ISBN13: 9780806139623
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"