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Autore: | Miller Rick <1941-> |
Titolo: | Bloody Bill Longley [[electronic resource] ] : the mythology of a gunfighter / / Rick Miller ; foreword by David Johnson |
Pubblicazione: | Denton, Tex., : University of North Texas Press, c2011 |
Edizione: | 2nd rev. ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (391 p.) |
Disciplina: | 976.4/063092 |
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Soggetto topico: | Outlaws - Texas |
Brigands and robbers - Texas | |
Soggetto geografico: | Texas Biography |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | A good-hearted boy -- These desperate scoundrels and out laws -- Murdering, robbing, and ravishing -- I kept on pumping lead -- We set out in fine spirit -- A man of low instinct and habits -- The worst Indian-- Who in the hell are you? -- Desperate looking character -- Shot him dead -- Bill was still fighting -- I will not be captured -- The last of "pea time" -- Plenty of ammunition -- We want him -- The most successful outlaw -- I have killed a many man -- Same old rattling Bill -- Hanging is my favorite way of dying -- Not upon his doomed neck. |
Sommario/riassunto: | William Preston "Bill" Longley (1851-1878), though born into a strong Christian family, turned bad during Reconstruction in Texas, much like other young boys of that time, including the deadly John Wesley Hardin. He went on a murderous rampage over the last few years of his life, shotgunning Wilson Anderson in retribution for Anderson's killing of a relative; killing George Thomas in McLennan County; and shooting William "Lou" Shroyer in a running gunfight. Longley even killed the Reverend William R. Lay while Lay was milking a cow. Once he was arrested in 1877, and subsequently sentenced to h |
Titolo autorizzato: | Bloody Bill Longley |
ISBN: | 1-283-10908-5 |
9786613109088 | |
1-57441-353-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910825742903321 |
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