The Frontier World of Fort Griffin: The Life and Death of a Western Townvolume 18

by Charles M. Robinson III

Book Overview

Fort Griffin, Texas, is rarely used in the same sentence with Dodge City, Deadwood, or Tombstone, yet this frontier town was every bit as tough as the places that went down in the history of brutality.

Vigilantes, lynchings, ladies of easy virtue, buffalo hunting, gambling, posses, more lynchings, and lawmen as bad as the outlaws they jailed--Fort Griffin had it all, bustling with a raw life not for the faint-of-heart. Commonly known as the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806152206
• ISBN13: 9780806152202
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"