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Captain Jack Helm : a victim of Texas Reconstruction violence /
In Captain Jack Helm, Chuck Parsons explores the life of a lawman in post-Civil War Texas, John Jackson "Jack" Helm. Previous biographers have neglected this man, whose main claim to fame has been that he was a victim of man-killer John Wesley Hardin. That he was, but he was much more in h...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Denton, Texas :
University of North Texas Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | A.C. Greene series ;
no. 18. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A nation torn apart
- Troubles on the DeWitt-Lavaca Counties line
- The Choate Ranch raid
- Action in Matagorda County
- Feuding against the Taylors
- "Six shooter gentry"
- Gunfire at the Billings Store
- "Attempting to escape"
- Epilogue: The grave of John Jackson Helm
- Appendix A: Jack Helm, Dewitt County Captain Commanding
- Appendix B: Vigilantes in Goliad County
- Appendix C: State police roster of Capt. Jack Helm
- Appendix D: Regulators of Goliad County.