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The Frontier World of Fort Griffin - The Life and Death of a Western Town (Paperback)
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The Frontier World of Fort Griffin - The Life and Death of a Western Town (Paperback)
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Loot Price R540
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Fort Griffin, Texas, is rarely used in the same sentence with Dodge
City, Deadwood, or Tombstone, yet this frontier town was every bit
as tough as the places that went down in the history of brutality.
Vigilantes, lynchings, ladies of easy virtue, buffalo hunting,
gambling, posses, more lynchings, and lawmen as bad as the outlaws
they jailed - Fort Griffin had it all, bustling with a raw life not
for the faint-of-heart. Commonly known as the Flat, Fort Griffin
grew from a military post rife with Indian trouble to a spirited,
rough-hewn frontier community, only to burn out in a matter of
decades. Within that time it helped mold characters equal to any of
legend. John Larn, the Flat's second sheriff, was not only
considered one of the best lawmen in the county but was also a
cattle thief and killer, and died as violently as he had lived.
Colonel Ranald MacKenzie, commanding officer of the Fourth Cavalry,
was the man whose savvy and knowledge would eventually put an end
to the savage Indian attacks that had plagued Fort Griffin and
surrounding territories. Lottie Deno was the celebrity of Fort
Griffin's floating world. With a mysterious past and uncommon
elegance for women in her trade, her time in the Flat was to end
with the tragic murder of her lover. Fort Griffin had all the
makings of the legendary western town, and was an archetype for the
untamed frontier life. Its story is one of passion, anger,
lawlessness, and occasional justice, and will further establish the
Flat as a truly original pioneer town.
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