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Jim Courtright of Fort Worth - His Life and Legend (Hardcover)
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Jim Courtright of Fort Worth - His Life and Legend (Hardcover)
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List price R704
Loot Price R593
Discovery Miles 5 930
You Save R111 (16%)
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Timothy Isaiah ""Longhair Jim"" Courtright operated on both sides
of the law and became a legend in his lifetime and after his death.
One of the most colorful characters from the wild and woolly days
of Fort Worth's Hell's Half Acre, Courtright was at various times
city marshal, deputy sheriff, deputy U.S. marshal, private
detective, hired killer, and racketeer. Today, he is almost
forgotten, either as a gunfighter or a lawman, except in Fort
Worth. Little is known about Courtright's early life, though he
apparently served in the Union army during the Civil War, But when
he arrived in the West, Courtright seemed to attract trouble. He
was involved in a shootout during the 1886 railroad strikes and was
accused of murder in New Mexico. Deputies were sent to Fort Worth
to escort him to New Mexico to stand trial. His escape from them,
complete with guns hidden under a restaurant table, is one of Fort
Worth's most colorful stories. Finally, he was killed in a shootout
that he apparently provoked with gambler and gunman Luke Short. To
this day nobody is sure what provoked that feud, but Courtright was
honored with the longest funeral procession Fort Worth had ever
seen. The myth of Courtright as legendary gunfighter was built in
two previous biographies - one by a novelist and the other by a
Franciscan priest. After exhaustive research into contemporary
newspapers and other accounts and close study of the previous two
books, historian Robert K. DeArment deconstructs the myth of
Longhair Jim and reconstructs the gunfighter as a real human being,
complex, flawed, often courageous, usually both honorable and
dishonorable. This book is a must for all those interested in the
legends of the West, its lawmen, and its outlaws.
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