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Tascosa: Its Life and Gaudy Times
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Tascosa: Its Life and Gaudy Times Hardback - 2007

by Frederick Nolan

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"Gatlin was one of the breed then prevalent on the West Texas plains who would kill a man to check whether the gun was loaded."Here, for the first time, is the true, detailed, down-and-dirty story of Tascosa: here at last are the facts that connect the stories of the "beef bonanza," Pat Garrett's "Home Rangers," the 1883 Cowboy Strike and the relentless, undeclared war that ensued between the corporation ranchers--Charlie Goodnight, "Alphabet" Lee, Al Boyce of the XIT and the rest of them--and the tough, dangerous fraternity of rustlers manipulated by Tascosa town boss Jesse Jenkins, a thirty year conflict that precipitated as gory a procession of violence and death as any frontier town ever witnessed. As well as being the center of ranching activity in the Panhandle, Tascosa also became the last best hiding place in Texas for killers on the run, horse thieves, tinhorn gamblers, hair-trigger shootists or anyone else with a past he wanted to get away from. Billy the Kid, "Poker Tom" Emory, Bill Gatlin, Jim Kenedy, and Louis "The Animal" Bousman were just a few of the outlaws and desperadoes who vied for dominance with Cape Willingham, Cap Arrington, Jim East, and other lawmen in an ongoing war of attrition that made sudden death a routine occurrence on the town's dusty street. A lot of bad men made fortunes and a lot of good men lost them as Tascosa went from boom to bust, from frontier Babylon to forgotten ghost town, in just a few short gaudy decades. Bypassed by the railroad, its body fenced in and its heart torn out, the community dried up and blew away. Today, Tascosa is a ghost town; its name all but disappeared from maps of Texas. Gone, but not forgotten: in Tascosa Frederick Nolan has dug up the rip-roaring history of one of the most violent outlaw towns of the Old West.

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  • Title Tascosa: Its Life and Gaudy Times
  • Author Frederick Nolan
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, TX
  • Publication date 2007
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780896726048 / 0896726045
  • Weight 1.9 lbs (0.86 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.24 x 7.3 x 1.2 in (26.01 x 18.54 x 3.05 cm)
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects Tascosa (Tex.), Tascosa (Tex.) - Social life and customs
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006037486
  • Dewey Decimal Code 976.482

About the author

Frederick Nolan is the author of The West of Billy the Kid, The Wild West: History, Myth and the Making of America, and many other works of fiction and nonfiction.

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