G. R. Williamson

The Notorious Texas Pistoleers - Ben Thompson & King Fisher (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Notorious Texas Pistoleers - Ben Thompson & King Fisher

(Second Edition)

Known as two of the best pistol fighters of their day, Ben Thompson and John King Fisher have remained an enigma in the chronicles of the Western Frontier.

While other gun fighters have achieved notoriety through the stories told in the pulp magazines and newspapers of the day, these two men have been largely ignored. Both were credited with killing a string of men during their lifetime and the mere mention of their names was usually enough to sober up a drunken opponent or cause a sober man to contemplate his own epitaph.

These men were not cold-blooded murders, but rather stand-up gun fighters that faced their adversaries in the winner-take-all shootout. The Notorious Texas Pistoleers tells their story in vivid detail and relates the true account of their deaths in a mystery shrouded ambush in a San Antonio saloon on a chilly March night in 1884

"They called King Fisher and Ben Thompson bad men, but they wasn't bad men; they just wouldn't stand for no foolishness, and they never killed anyone unless they bothered them."

Tom Sullivan, deputy sheriff in Medina County, Texas

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indian Head Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781386648055
• Artikelnr.: 52356459

Autorenporträt

G.R. Williamson lives in Kerrville, Texas with his wife and trusty Chihuahua, "Shooter". He spent his early years living in Crystal City, Texas which is located twenty miles west of King Fisher's ranch in Dimmitt County. As a Boy Scout he hunted arrow heads on the land that once belonged to King Fisher and he fished in the alligator waters of Espantosa Lake.

He has written many articles on Texas historical figures and events in Texas history. In addition, he has penned several western motion picture screenplays that make their way to California from time to time.

Williamson's interview with Willis Newton in 1979 was the basis for his book, Willis Newton - The Last Texas Outlaw. The book details the outlaw's own words about his life of crime as well as the intensive historical research that separated truth from fabrication. It still remains as the only Willis Newton biography.