Frontier Justice in the Wild West: Bungled, Bizarre, and Fascinating Executions

Frontier Justice highlights eighteen crimes and subsequent punishments of the most interesting, controversial, and unusual executions from an era when hangings and shootings were a legal means of capital punishment. Learn about the bungled hanging of Tom Ketchum who was beheaded by the noose; the unique trigger for the trapdoor used to hang Tom Horn; "Big Nose" George Parrott who was skinned, pickled, and made into a pair of shoes; the double trials of Jack McCall, assassin of Wild Bill Hickok; the hanging of a woman-Elizabeth Potts; the shooting of John D. Lee of Mountain Meadows Massacre infamy; and the only use of a double "twitch-up" gallows; etc. Each action-packed chapter includes biographical information, the pursuit, the investigation, legal maneuvers, trial information, and rarely-seen photographs.

Author: R. Michael Wilson
Publisher: Two Dot Books
Published: 06/01/2007
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.06w x 0.55d
ISBN13: 9780762743896
ISBN10: 0762743891
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | 19th Century
- True Crime | General

About the Author
R. Michael Wilson, a former law enforcement officer, has been researching and writing about the Old West for fifteen years.