Crime Old West

In the romantic narrative of the Old West, two larger-than-life characters emerged as the perfect foils for each other - the rampant outlaw and the heroic peace officer. Without the villain, sheriffs would not have needed to uphold the law; and without the sheriff, villains would have had no law to break. Together, both personalities fought, lost, and triumphed amid shootouts, train robberies, and bank holdups against the backdrop of the lawless American frontier.

Set in 1879, SIX-GUN RETRIBUTION follows the cowboy adventures of Gunfighter Edward Landon as he sets off across the wild west searching for six outlaws he holds responsible for his mother's death. This contemporary action novel features a wide range of western characters, including lawmen, gunslingers, outlaws, Mexican bandits, Indian rebels, and bounty hunters. Andy Munro’s SIX-GUN RETRIBUTION includes realistic characters, historic wild west locations, fast-paced cowboy dialogue, action, mystery and suspense mixed with humour and romance. Synopsis The journey begins as Landon rides his...

Great value! 5 Book Box Set ONLY 99c! Read FREE on Kindle Unlimited! 5 complete classic western stories full of action, adventure, romance, mystery and intrigue as 5 lawmen bring outlaws to justice. Revenge and retribution lead to truth and justice always prevailing. The collection includes: Ben’s Revenge Abe’s Justice Blake’s Retribution Seth's Vengeance Todd's Vendetta

The sand hides everything. Eventually. Far from the city lights and paved roads, there are stretches of earth that belong only to the scavengers. This is where the desperate run, where the violent thrive, and where the unlucky simply disappear. From the merciless slaughter of territorial border massacres to the blood-stained dirt of isolated arroyos where legendary lawmen met unpunished ends, this collection strips away the frontier myths to reveal the brutal reality underneath. These are not neat, tidy mysteries wrapped up with a courtroom gavel. These are raw, unflinching accounts of ...

They rode home to do what even Jesse James never dared — rob two banks at the same hour. Ten minutes later, four of them were dead in the dirt. On the morning of October 5, 1892, five men in false beards rode into the plaza of Coffeyville, Kansas, with Winchesters under their coats. Three of them — Bob, Grat, and Emmett Dalton — had grown up just outside town. The neighbors knew their faces. The disguises fooled no one. The Daltons were not born outlaws. Their older brother Frank died wearing a deputy U.S. marshal's badge at Judge Parker's Fort Smith court, and Bob, Grat, and Emmett ...

He was not Robin Hood. He was a Confederate guerrilla, a political terrorist, and a killer—and a newspaper editor turned him into a hero while he was still robbing trains. On April 3, 1882, Jesse James took off his gun belt, climbed onto a chair to straighten a picture, and Robert Ford shot him in the back of the head for reward money and a pardon. The dust was still settling when the legend swallowed the man whole. Within hours, the murder of the most wanted man in America became a national sensation, and Ford became “the dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard.” But the legend of ...

He killed Billy the Kid. Twenty-seven years later, someone killed him the same way — a shot from behind, on a lonely road — and to this day no one knows who pulled the trigger. On the morning of February 29, 1908, Pat Garrett stepped down from a buggy on the road outside Las Cruces, New Mexico, and was shot in the back of the head. The most famous lawman in the Southwest died in the dirt with his trousers unbuttoned. His confessed killer was acquitted in minutes. The case was never truly solved. It was a shabby end for the man who, on a dark July night in 1881, had tracked William H. ...

Eight captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: The Wild West, Billy the Kid, Buffalo Bill, Seth Bullock, Davy Crockett, Annie Oakley, Jesse James, and Geronimo. Some of the topics covered in part one of this audiobook include: What the Native Americans of the West were really like before colonization, how the Spanish were some of the first Europeans to explore the West, the seven years during which Texas was its own country, and much, much more!

A fun, high-stakes true crime story story set in the Wild West. Perfect for fans of MONA LISA VANISHES! "Steve Sheinkin is more than an author―he’s a time traveler whose deep research and fabulous writing whisk readers on thrilling rides through history. Kids will be transfixed by this...

Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are back in the saddle with guns blazing in this gritty, intense addition to the New York Times–bestselling series. After hunting down murderer and bandito Captain Alejandro Vasquez, Territorial Marshal Virgil Cole and Deputy Everett Hitch...

They marched the elected sheriff to the gallows he had ordered built, put the rope around his neck, and let him strangle in the snow — and no judge had heard a single word of evidence. In the winter of 1863–64, the Montana gold camps of Bannack and Virginia City were among the richest and most lawless places on earth. Gold dust moved out along the trails by the hundredweight, and along those same trails travelers were robbed and murdered with terrifying regularity. The nearest real courts lay hundreds of miles away across the mountains. Into that vacuum stepped two answers to a single ...

American Outlaws: The Bandits, Rebels, and Renegades Who Became Legend They robbed banks, held up trains, and defied the law. Some were killers. Some were folk heroes. All became immortal. The American outlaw is more than a criminal—he's a symbol of rebellion in a nation born from revolution. From the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War to the desperate dust bowl years, these were the men and women who chose freedom over law, adventure over toil, and infamy over obscurity. They lived fast, died young (usually), and left behind stories that grew more fantastic with every retelling. In ...

It is a chill and foggy Twelfth Night, wild with North Sea wind, when a bizarre murder disturbs the outward piece of Rackmoor, a tiny Yorkshire fishing village with a past that proves a tangled maze of unrequited loves, unrevenged wrongs, and even undiscovered murders. Inspector Jury finds no...

Thomas Horn Jr. was an infamous figure in the 19th-century American Old West. Cowboy, soldier, government scout, translator, and gunman, Horn’s storied life has become an important part of western folklore. In 1902, he was convicted for murdering a 14-year-old boy after a run-in during a feud with a cattle rancher. The Life of Tom Horn is his life story in his own words, written from prison before he met his fate at the gallows the following year.

The private company that hunted Jesse James and the Wild Bunch — and, in doing so, invented modern surveillance. On a January night in 1875, Pinkerton operatives surrounded a Missouri farmhouse and threw an incendiary device through the window. It killed Jesse James's nine-year-old half-brother and maimed his mother. Jesse wasn't even there. The botched raid turned Missouri against the agency and helped make an outlaw into a folk hero — and it captured exactly what the Pinkerton National Detective Agency was: relentless, technologically modern, nationally ambitious, and answerable to ...

The Old West is a collection of five western themed stories set in the old west. Come along for an authentic trip through the west, the way it really was. Jimson Jones, Sarah Johnson, The Cowboy, The Farmers Wife, To Hang a Thief An excerpt from: Sarah Jones One starless night, the tranquility of Harmony Creek was irrevocably broken. The rhythmic chirping of crickets was replaced by the terrifying sounds of shattering glass and panicked screams. A nightmare descended upon the peaceful farm. The familiar comfort of home was replaced by a brutal violence, a darkness that would sear itself ...

In this book of the Hunt-U.S. Marshal series, Hunt receives a surprise visit from Beth's sister and new husband. A husband that matches the description of a wanted fugitive from New York wanted for rape, robbery and murder. Clayton leads two other U.S. Deputy Marshals on a manhunt across Utah. A trail stained with the blood of a Deputy Sheriff, and the Sheriff was murdered in a town that appears that they could care less. Earl and Jewels track cattle thieves and murderers from a small Texas town located near the Panhandle, across Texas and New Mexico, resulting in a gun battle near the ...

A mysterious old mining town from the old west draws the attention of a police squad while a series of murders and bank robberies take place. Sergeant Payne decides to send in Cole Parker, his top homicide investigator. Cole becomes informed of the town's wild west history, and he makes some shocking discoveries. But uncovering a secret passageway, hidden hatchways, and an underground tunnel is just the beginning. He begins to realize that the bank robbers have more of a history than he imagined, and he soon finds himself in dreadful danger.

The second in a series of Old West tales, this book follows the adventures of Lonnie as he encounters characters of ill repute, horses of great talent, and founders of old west towns.

The most famous female outlaw of the American West robbed no banks, led no gang, and was convicted of exactly one crime. The legend did the rest. On a muddy bottomland road in the Choctaw Nation, two days short of her forty-first birthday, Myra Maybelle Shirley Starr was blasted from her horse by a shotgun fired from behind a fence. No one was ever convicted. Within weeks, the penny press resurrected her as "Belle Starr, the Bandit Queen" — a horseback Amazon in velvet and pistols who ruled a kingdom of thieves. Almost none of it was true. This is the documented woman behind the dime-...