The life and times of one of the more modest frontier gunmen, and
his sizable role in the taming of the New Mexico and Arizona
Territories, by Wild West biographer DeArment (Knights of the Green
Cloth, 1982 - not reviewed). Scarborough had more than his share of
gunplay and excitement in his brief career as a defender of law and
order, and his reputation among his peers and the desperadoes he
tracked throughout the southwestern wilderness was considerable,
but he failed nonetheless to achieve the lasting fame of a Pat
Garrett or a Bat Masterson. The son of a Texas homesteader and
parson, Scarborough knew firsthand the unsettled conditions on the
southern frontier in the wake of the Civil War. After riding the
range as a cowboy, he decided he'd "rather run men than cattle"
first, in 1984, as sheriff of Anson, Texas, then as deputy US
Marshal in untamed El Paso, and finally, during the 1890's, as a
private detective for the New Mexico Cattlemen's Association. Best
known at the time for his killing of gunslinger and latter-day
lawman John Selman in El Paso, Scarborough was forced by that
incident and an earlier shootout to stand trial twice for murder,
but he was acquitted in both cases. Intent on his work, he had
little appreciation for sensationalized news reports of his
exploits, even refusing to talk to journalists for fear of
revealing too much of his methods, so when he was gunned down on
the trail in 1900 and died after surgery, the mysteries and legends
surrounding him were largely forgotten. Unfocused and as much about
Scarborough's milieu as the man himself, but still a colorful
rendering of the hard men (and women) who thrived on the frontier.
(Kirkus Reviews)
Now, for the first time, Robert K. DeArment has told the full
story of George Scarborough's life, illuminating his activity as a
lawman during the final part of the nineteenth century and his
controversial killings while wearing the badge-he was tried for
murder on three occasions and acquitted each time.
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