Haile, Bartee,  1945- <br/><br/>
Texas Boomtowns:   A History of Blood and Oil 
Bartee Haile. 
 - 119 pages :  illustrations, portraits ;  23 cm 
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<br/><br/> Texas has long boasted its iron fist of the law and strict treatment of its hardest criminals. Nevertheless, scoundrels, fiends and homicidal criminals inevitably slipped through the Lone Star justice system despite the best efforts of even the legendary Texas Rangers. From roadside murder to political assassinations, discover the seedy underbelly of Texas murderous past. In 1877, Texas saw its first high-profile murder case with the slaying of a woman in Jefferson and the subsequent "Diamond Bessie" trial. Over a century later, state legislator Price Daniel Jr. was shot in cold blood by his wife at their home in Liberty. Texas true crime writer and historian Bartee Haile unburies this collection of sixteen coldblooded killings from Lone Star history and the dirty details that have shocked and bewildered Texans for decades. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781540202567 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>1386409  QBI 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2015949873 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Oil--Texas--History--20th century<br/>Murderers--Texas--Biography
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Texas--History--19th century<br/>Texas--History--20th century
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV6533.T4  / H35 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>364.152/3/09764