Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings & Celebrated Trials (2006)

Format: Hardcover

ISBN: 9780896725799

Condition: Very Good

The book has a slight amount shelf wear.

Contents Description:

Laws passed by politicians in far-off Austin meant little to Westerners living on the Texas frontier. Sagebrush justice relied less on written statutes than on common sense, grass-roots fairness, and vague notions of folk law drawn from the old South's Victorian code of chivalry and honor. - from the inside flap