The murder of Colonel Fountain is the most notorious of New
Mexico's many "unsolved" killings. Pat Garrett came out of
retirement to track down the killers, and this resulted in the
bloody gunfight at the Wildy Well. Feared gunman Oliver Lee and two
others were charged with the crime. Albert Bacon Fall who liked to
brag that he never lost a murder trial defended them.
This "trial of the decade" was the climax of the west's last
great range war, a war so violent that it cost New Mexico statehood
for three decades. A huge camp was thrown up overnight in the
rugged mountain camp of Hillsboro to accommodate the hundreds of
newsmen who flocked in from across the nation.
The Tularosa War was a fight for control of the Southwest. The
bodies of the two victims were never found. Fall won as he
predicted he would, only to meet his downfall and disgrace as the
principal figure of Washington's Teapot Dome Scandal.
Fountain and Garrett lost the Tularosa War, but both men are
still thought of as two of the frontier's best, giants among
giants.
General
| Imprint: |
Iuniverse, Inc.
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
December 2004 |
| First published: |
December 2004 |
| Authors: |
J. Ben Tarver
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
408 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-595-33774-3 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Historical fiction
|
| LSN: |
0-595-33774-0 |
| Barcode: |
9780595337743 |
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