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A Lawless Breed

Author: Chuck Parsons

Publisher: University of North Texas Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 1574415050

John Wesley Hardin spread terror in much of Texas in the years following the Civil War as the most wanted fugitive. Hardin left an autobiography in which he detailed many of the troubles of his life. In A Lawless Breed, Parsons and Brown have meticulously examined his claims against available records to determine how much of his life story is true, and how much was only a half truth, or a complete lie.

The Lawless Breed

Author: T. A. Mort

Publisher: Pinnacle Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780786016211

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From a bold new voice in western adventure comes this rousing tale of a former Union Navy officer and trained killer who faces a murderous Navajo and encounters other deadly dangers while he pursues a band of killer stagecoach robbers. Original.

Lawless Breed

Author: Ralph Hayes

Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd

Published: 2017-03-01

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 0719822351

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When Wesley Sumner is released from prison, he and cellmate Corey Madison go in search of work as ranch hands. But their new-found freedom is short-lived when they are arrested for a crime they did not commit. And when Corey dies after a savage beating from their captors, Sumner vows revenge. However, his plans are thwarted when he learns that the two deputies who beat Corey have lost their jobs and are now themselves on the run from the law. And so begins a long hard journey, fraught with danger, as slowly but surely Sumner tracks down his friend's killers.

The Sutton-Taylor Feud

Author: Chuck Parsons

Publisher: University of North Texas Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1574412574

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History, Rangers, Quarrels, Trials.

Captain Jack Helm

Author: Chuck Parsons

Publisher: University of North Texas Press

Published: 2018-03-15

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1574417266

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In Captain Jack Helm, Chuck Parsons explores the life of John Jackson “Jack” Helm, whose main claim to fame has been that he was a victim of man-killer John Wesley Hardin. That he was, but he was much more in his violence-filled lifetime during Reconstruction Texas. First as a deputy sheriff, then county sheriff, and finally captain of the notorious Texas State Police, he developed a reputation as a violent and ruthless man-hunter. He arrested many suspected lawbreakers, but often his prisoner was killed before reaching a jail for “attempting to escape.” This horrific tendency ultimately brought about his downfall. Helm’s aggressive enforcement of his version of “law and order” resulted in a deadly confrontation with two of his enemies in the midst of the Sutton-Taylor Feud. “Captain Jack Helm is more than a fine gunfighter biography: it is a vivid statement about the murderous violence of Reconstruction in Texas.”—Bill O’Neal, State Historian of Texas

The Life of John Wesley Hardin

Author: John Wesley Hardin

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-05-12

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 1387808605

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John Wesley Hardin was the only Wild West outlaw to write his autobiography. This new 2018 edition of his prison-penned memoirs includes an introduction and footnotes by author and translator Damian Stevenson ('On the Shortness of Life') which help shed light on this most enigmatic of Old West legends.

Lawless

Author: Nora Roberts

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks

Published: 2020-09-15

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1250775477

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A historical romance set in America’s Old West, Lawless is “a novel by Jackie MacNamara,” the book written by the character in #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts’ Loving Jack. In the late 1800s, the Arizona Territory was an unsettled, wild frontier traversed by the likes of Jake Redman. Prejudiced against for his partial Apache parentage, the gunslinger had little patience for the civility practiced by Sarah Conway. Yet she brought more than polite manners from her east coast city society, possessing a strength of character needed to make the western town of Lone Bluff her home—and an enticing, fiery passion as dangerous to Jake as anything he ever faced with a six-gun.

John Wesley Hardin

Author: Leon Claire Metz

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1998-03-01

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780806129952

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Thus spoke one lawman about John Wesley Hardin, easily the most feared and fearless of all the gunfighters in the West. Nobody knows the exact number of his victims-perhaps as few as twenty or as many as fifty. In his way of thinking, Hardin never shot a man who did not deserve it. Seeking to gain insight into Hardin’s homicidal mind, Leon Metz describes how Hardin’s bloody career began in post-Civil War Central Texas, when lawlessness and killings were commonplace, and traces his life of violence until his capture and imprisonment in 1878. After numerous unsuccessful escape attempts, Hardin settled down and received a pardon years later in 1895. He wrote an autobiography but did not live to see it published. Within a few months of his release, John Selman gunned him down in an El Paso saloon.

John B. Armstrong, Texas Ranger and Pioneer Ranchman

Author: Chuck Parsons

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1603444963

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As Elmer Kelton notes in his afterword to this book, "Chuck Parsons' biography is a long-delayed and much-justified tribute to Armstrong's service to Texas." Parsons fills in the missing details of a Ranger and rancher's life, correcting some common misconceptions and adding to the record of a legendary group of lawmen and pioneers.

Texas Ranger N. O. Reynolds, the Intrepid

Author: Chuck Parsons

Publisher: University of North Texas Press

Published: 2014-08-15

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 1574415727

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Historians Chuck Parsons and Donaly E. Brice present a complete picture of N. O. Reynolds (1846-1922), a Texas Ranger who brought a greater respect for the law in Central Texas. Reynolds began as a sergeant in famed Company D, Frontier Battalion in 1874. He served honorably during the Mason County "Hoo Doo" War and was chosen to be part of Major John B. Jones's escort, riding the frontier line. In 1877 he arrested the Horrells, who were feuding with their neighbors, the Higgins party, thus ending their Lampasas County feud. Shortly thereafter he was given command of the newly formed Company E of Texas Rangers. Also in 1877 the notorious John Wesley Hardin was captured; N.O. Reynolds was given the responsibility to deliver Hardin to trial in Comanche, return him to a safe jail during his appeal, and then escort him safely to the Huntsville penitentiary. Reynolds served as a Texas Ranger until he retired in 1879 at the rank of lieutenant, later serving as City Marshal of Lampasas and then County Sheriff of Lampasas County.