High Noon in Lincoln

Violence on the Western Frontier
Erscheinungsjahr 1990
ISBN: 978-0-8263-1201-3
Verlag: University of New Mexico Press

Buch, Englisch, 265 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Here is the most detailed and most engagingly narrated history to date of the legendary two-year facedown and shootout in Lincoln. Until now, New Mexico's late nineteenth-century Lincoln County War has served primarily as the backdrop for a succession of mythical renderings of Billy the Kid in American popular culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Utley, Robert M

Über Autor(innen)

Robert M. Utley is a retired Chief Historian of the National Park Service and has written over fifteen books on a variety of aspects of history of the American West. His writings have received numerous prizes, including the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Center's Wrangler Award, the Western Writers of American Spur Award, the Caughey Prize from the Western History Association, and the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society for Military History. He resides in Georgetown, Texas.