TY  - BOOK
AU  - Haile,Bartee
ED  - 
TI  - Texas Boomtowns:   A History of Blood and Oil
AV  - HV6533.T4 H35 2014
U1  - 364.152/3/09764 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Charleston, SC
PB  - The History Press
KW  - Oil
KW  - Texas
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Murderers
KW  - Biography
KW  - 19th century
N2  - 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
ER  -