[HARMAN, Samuel W.].

Hell on the Border; He Hanged Eighty-eight Men.

Item #73334

[HARMAN, Samuel W.]. Hell on the Border; He Hanged Eighty-eight Men. Fort Smith, AR: The Phoenix Publishing Company, [1898]. 1st ed. xiii,720 pp. Portrait frontis., illus., portraits. Orig. printed wrappers, housed in custom board slipcase. Front wrapper starting, small tape repair to head of spine, else a very good copy. HOWES H-203, "b." Graff 1785. Rader 1780.Adams, Six-Guns, 929. "A spirited discussion of various cases tried by Judge Isaac C. Parker in the United States Criminal Court at Fort Smith"-Howes. "This outlaw classic describes the career of the famous `hanging judge,' Isaac C. Parker of Fort Smith, Arkansas. The author was a lawyer who practiced in parker's court, and who was intimately familiar with the lawless state of the eastern Indian Territory from the mid-1870s to the 1890s. ... Harman describes the criminals and their crimes with gusto. This book is a Newgate Calendar of the West"-Reese, Best of the West, 226. " With the bookplate of William H. Claflin, Jr., the collector of ethnology and archaeology, whose collections are at Harvard.

Price: $1,250.00