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Cowboys and Gangsters

Stories of an Untamed Southwest

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Cowboys and Gangsters

By: Samuel K. Dolan
Narrated by: Pete Bradbury
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Even after WWI had ended, the region of Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas stubbornly refused to be tamed. It was still a place where frontier gunfights broke out at an alarming rate.

Utilizing official records, newspaper accounts, and oral histories, Cowboys and Gangsters tells the story of the untamed "Wild West" of the Prohibition era of the 1920s and early 1930s and introduces a rogues' gallery of six-gun-packing Western gunfighters and lawmen.

Told through the lens of the accounts of a handful of Texas rangers and federal agents, this book covers a unique and action-packed era in American history. It's a story that connects the horse and saddle days of the Old West with the high-octane decade of the Roaring '20s.

©2016 Samuel K. Dolan (P)2016 Recorded Books Americas Organized Crime State & Local True Crime United States Old West Wild West Crime American History Mexico Latin American
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If you like human interest anecdotes from the period, this one is for you. I missed a wider perspective of the social and economic issues driving the events both in the US and in Mexico. Well read though.

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