High Noon in Lincoln : Violence on the Western Frontier by Robert Marshall Utley (1987, Hardcover)

University of New Mexico Press

082630981X

9780826309815

7038705194

United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx)

High Noon in Lincoln : Violence on the Western Frontier

1987

278 Pages

English

Yes

History

Robert Marshall Utley

Hardcover

87-010864

19

978.9/6404

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. "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 author of "Strain of Violence: Historical Studies of America Violence and Vigilantism "A masterful account of the actual facts of the gory Lincoln County War and the role of Billy the Kid. . . . Utley separates the truth from legend without detracting from the gripping suspense and human interest of the story."--Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.

F802.L7U86 1987