Alias Frank Canton by Robert K Dearment

Alias Frank Canton by Robert K Dearment

Here for the first time is the complete life story of the controversial lawman Frank Canton, born Joe Horner, who, after conviction and imprisonment for armed robbery, escaped to change his name and transform himself into an ambitious, hard-working peace officer pursuing felons all over the western frontier for almost half a century.Canton was active in widely separate sections of the country--Texas, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and Alaska--during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth. Western historian Robert K. DeArment has tracked down the facts of the mysterious Canton's early life and misdeeds in Texas; his participation in the Johnson Country War as an agent of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association; his pursuit of the Daltons, Bill Doolin, and other outlaws in Oklahoma Territory; his experiences as a peace officer and gold prospector in Alaska; his career as a bounty hunter; and his ultimate success as adjutant general of the new state of Oklahoma.

Robert K. DeArment has made a lifelong study of the establishment of law on the American frontier and the gunfighters, outlaws, and lawmen who were part of that story. He is the author of numerous books and articles and a member of Western Writers of America, Inc., the Western Outlaw-Lawman History Association, and the National Association for Outlaws and Lawman History. He has been honored for his writing by both WOLA and NOLA.

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ISBN 13	9780806129006
ISBN 10	080612900X
Titel	Alias Frank Canton
Autor	Robert K Dearment
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	University of Oklahoma Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1997-09-30
Seitenanzahl	448
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