Frederick Turner

Kid and Me (eBook, PDF)

A Novel

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In The Kid and MeFrederick Turner deftly re-creates the Lincoln County Warin what was then New Mexico Territory. The 1878 war pitted an established faction led by James Dolan against new arrivals in the county led by John Tunstall and Alexander McSween. When Tunstall and McSween opened a dry-goods store in 1876 in a direct challenge to Dolan's monopoly on the dry-goods business, trouble was inevitable. Both the Dolan and the Tunstall-McSween factions garnered supporters, including lawmen, criminal gangs, and ranch hands. The ambush and murder of Tunstall by a local sheriff's posse loyal to Dolan sparked a wave of revenge killings and bloody reprisals in which Billy the Kid¿one of Tunstall's ranch hands¿played a prominent role. Narrated by George Coe, an aged veteran of New Mexico's Lincoln County War but now a devout painter of village churches, The Kid and Metells what it felt like to ride alongside Billy the Kid, whom Coe both admired and greatly feared. Gang...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bison Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496208149
• Artikelnr.: 53494248

Autorenporträt

Frederick Turner is the author or editor of several books, including The Go-Between: A Novel of the Kennedy Years and 1929: A Novel of the Jazz Age .