High Noon in Lincoln: Violence on the Western Frontier - Hardcover

Utley, Robert M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 082630981X ISBN 13: 9780826309815

Publisher: UNIV OF NEW MEXICO PR, 1987

Synopsis

Here is the most detailed and most engagingly narrated history to date of the legendary two-year facedown and shootout in Lincoln. Until now, New Mexico's late nineteenth-century Lincoln County War has served primarily as the backdrop for a succession of mythical renderings of Billy the Kid in American popular culture.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert M. Utley is a retired Chief Historian of the National Park Service and has written over fifteen books on a variety of aspects of history of the American West. His writings have received numerous prizes, including the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Center's Wrangler Award, the Western Writers of American Spur Award, the Caughey Prize from the Western History Association, and the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society for Military History. He resides in Georgetown, Texas.

From the Inside Flap:

"In research, writing, and interpretation, "High Noon in Lincoln" is a superb book. It is one of the best books (maybe the best) ever written on a violent episode in the West."--Richard Maxwell Brown

About this edition

• Publisher: UNIV OF NEW MEXICO PR
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 082630981X
• ISBN 13: 9780826309815
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 265