Outlaw Tales of New Mexico: True Stories Of The Land Of Enchantment's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And Cutthroats - Paperback

by Barbara Marriott (Author)

True stories of the Land of Enchantment's most infamous crooks, culprits, and cutthroats.

Back Jacket

Meet the Most Notorious New Mexicans Who Ever LivedNew Mexico is the home (and final resting place) of some of the frontier's baddest dudes. Read about Black Jack Ketchum, who robbed trains, banks, and stagecoaches, terrorizing the whole state. Meet Clay Allison, aka the "Gentleman Outlaw," a respectful Tennessee native and Confederate veteran who settled in Colfax County after the war, but became lethal company when he had a few too many belts of whiskey. Learn how Hoodoo Brown--judge, coroner, and mayor of East Las Vegas--turned into an adulterous murderer, and figure out whether or not he got away with his crimes. All this and more is yours for the reading in Outlaw Tales of New Mexico, which introduces fourteen of the most dramatic events, and the most daring and despicable desperados, in the history of the Land of Enchantment.

Author Biography

Barb Marriott has a PhD in cultural anthropology, a thirst for knowledge, and an insatiable curiousity giving her the enthusiasm and the tools to research, analysis, and weave together people, cultures, and events.