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Item specifics
- Condition
- Pages
- 229
- Publication Date
- 2008-02-05
- Book Title
- The Feud That Wasn't: The Taylor Ring, Bill Sutton, John Wesley H
- ISBN
- 9781603440172
- Subject Area
- True Crime, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
- Publication Name
- Feud That Wasn't : the Taylor Ring, Bill Sutton, John Wesley Hardin, and Violence in Texas
- Publisher
- Texas A&M University Press
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Subject
- United States / State & Local / General, United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), General, Law Enforcement, Violence in Society, Criminals & Outlaws
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Series
- Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Item Weight
- 19.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
ISBN-10
1603440178
ISBN-13
9781603440172
eBay Product ID (ePID)
64160632
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Feud That Wasn't : the Taylor Ring, Bill Sutton, John Wesley Hardin, and Violence in Texas
Subject
United States / State & Local / General, United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), General, Law Enforcement, Violence in Society, Criminals & Outlaws
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
True Crime, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Series
Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2007-033913
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
". . . James M. Smallwood adopts the form of popular history-accessible, even dramatic, prose-in the service of the academician''s war on myth as history. . . Smallwood builds a firm documentary foundation. . . and balances traditional, local accounts with correspondence from military and civil officials. . . This book significantly raises the bar for popular histories of violence in post-Civil War Texas. . . Smallwood leaves little room for further facile loitering at the crossroads of Old South and Old West mythology. This is popular history with a purpose." - Kyle Wilkison, ". . . James M. Smallwood adopts the form of popular history-accessible, even dramatic, prose-in the service of the academician's war on myth as history. . . Smallwood builds a firm documentary foundation. . . and balances traditional, local accounts with correspondence from military and civil officials. . . This book significantly raises the bar for popular histories of violence in post-Civil War Texas. . . Smallwood leaves little room for further facile loitering at the crossroads of Old South and Old West mythology. This is popular history with a purpose." - Kyle Wilkison, Smallwood offers an impressive reinterpretation of a critical era in Reconstruction Texas and the South.
Dewey Edition
22
Series Volume Number
15
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
976.4/06
Synopsis
Shows that what seemed to be random lawlessness can be interpreted as a pattern of rebellion by a loose confederation of desperadoes who found common cause in their hatred of the Reconstruction government in Texas. This title is suitable for western historians and those interested in gunfighters and lawmen., Marauding outlaws, or violent rebels still bent on fighting the Civil War? For decades, the so-called "Taylor-Sutton feud" has been seen as a bloody vendetta between two opposing gangs of Texas gunfighters. However, historian James M. Smallwood here shows that what seemed to be random lawlessness can be interpreted as a pattern of rebellion by a loose confederation of desperadoes who found common cause in their hatred of the Reconstruction government in Texas. Between the 1850s and 1880, almost 200 men rode at one time or another with Creed Taylor and his family through a forty-five-county area of Texas, stealing and killing almost at will, despite heated and often violent opposition from pro-Union law enforcement officials, often led by William Sutton. From 1871 until his eventual arrest, notorious outlaw John Wesley Hardin served as enforcer for the Taylors. In 1874 in the streets of Comanche, Texas, on his twenty-first birthday, Hardin and two other members of the Taylor ring gunned down Brown County Deputy Charlie Webb. This cold-blooded killing--one among many--marked the beginning of the end for the Taylor ring, and Hardin eventually went to the penitentiary as a result. The Feud That Wasn't reinforces the interpretation that Reconstruction was actually just a continuation of the Civil War in another guise, a thesis Smallwood has advanced in other books and articles. He chronicles in vivid detail the cattle rustling, horse thieving, killing sprees, and attacks on law officials perpetrated by the loosely knit Taylor ring, drawing a composite picture of a group of anti-Reconstruction hoodlums who at various times banded together for criminal purposes. Western historians and those interested in gunfighters and lawmen will heartily enjoy this colorful and meticulously researched narrative.
LC Classification Number
F391.T22S63 2008
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