The Reckoning: The Triumph of Order on the Texas Outlaw Frontier

by Peter Rose

Book Overview

Isolated by geology and passed over by development, the vast, waterless tablelands of the Edwards Plateau of Texas became the stage for one of the great nineteenth-century dramas of Western justice. In 1873, opportunistic Anglo-Celtic cattlemen and homesteaders, protected by little other than personal firearms and their own bravado, began settling the stream-laced rangelands east of the plateau. An insidious criminal element soon followed: a family-based...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1682830268
• ISBN13: 9781682830260
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"