2013-07-21

truepenny: artist's rendering of Sidneyia inexpectans (ws: hamlet)
2013-07-21 12:31 pm

UBC: Goodman, Boessenecker, Gardner

3 books this time, two mediocre, and one quite good. I'm discussing them in that order, with the Boessenecker & Gardner together because their subjects harmonize--it wasn't a planned diptych, but they turn out to make excellent foils for each other.

Goodman, Jonathan. Murder on Several Occasions. Illus. Nina Lewis Smart. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2007.

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Boessenecker, John. Badge and Buckshot: Lawlessness in Old California. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. [library]

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Gardner, Mark Lee. To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West. New York: William Morrow-HarperCollins, 2010.

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