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The author never intended to write about Wyatt Earp or the
Tombstone saga. What could be learned from another retelling of
that old chestnut? New revelations, like the ""Otero Letter,""
alter traditional interpretations of Earp's sanguinary campaign as
a personal feud ala western fiction. It was a seek and destroy
mission sanctioned by the attorney-general, the United States
marshal and governor of Arizona Territory, following a year of
corrupt law enforcement in league with the Cow-boys' expanded
livestock raids, stagecoach holdups, and other atrocities. This
work is divided into three sections. The first part establishes the
major players prior to converging on Tombstone. Part two recaps the
Earp path to confrontation via a monthly/daily account of the
18-months culminating with the final bloody field action. Part
three covers the provenance, authenticity and credibility of the
""Otero Letter;"" a detailed examination of each statement in the
letter including the shotgun dual between Wyatt Earp and Curly
Bill; the split between Earp and Holliday; sanctuary for the Earp
posse in Colorado and Holliday's extradition fight; Earp's covert
Phase II assault resulting in Johnny Ringo's death; the
controversial courtship and marriage of Earp and Josephine Marcus;
and the author's concluding observations.
This book describes the birth of the New Mexico Mounted Police in
1905 and tells the stories of the members of the original Mounties,
starting with their first captain, John F. Fullerton. It details
the many challenges of their first year of operation and offers an
inside look at a territorial police force in action. Information
drawn from personal interviews with ranger family members,
Fullerton's personal papers and official Mounted Police records
brings a wealth of detail to this story from New Mexico's rich
history.
In the summer of 1930, two federal prohibition agents were
murdered. The first died in a hail of buckshot on a dark street in
Aguilar, Colorado. Six weeks later, the second agent and his
vehicle disappeared on a sunny afternoon along a New Mexico state
highway south of Raton. These events occurred during the era when
the government legislated a ban on alcohol manufacture,
distribution, and sales within the United States. During their
50-year search, the authors sought answers to why no one was ever
prosecuted for these crimes. This is the first book to correlate
the two murders, identify how and why they occurred, name the
parties involved and the roles they played. The authors interviewed
many individuals associated with the events and discovered a trove
of National Archives files containing incident reports, suspect
interview notes, the dead agents' daily activity logs and their
personnel files. Building upon this base, they located the
remaining documents generated by state and local law enforcement
officers and additionally data mined private and public
contemporary newspaper collections. The shadows along the trail
lift as the light of truth is shown upon this mystery. Two federal
agents can now rest in peace.
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