Cowboys and Gangsters: Stories of an Untamed Southwest

by Samuel K. Dolan

Overview

Even after WWI had ended, the region of Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas stubbornly refused to be tamed. It was still a place where frontier gunfights still broke out at an alarming rate. Utilizing official records, newspaper accounts, and oral histories, Cowboys and Gangsters tells the story of the untamed “Wild West” of the Prohibition-era of the 1920s and early 1930s and introduces a rogues’ gallery of sixgun-packing western gunfighters and lawmen. Told through the lens of the accounts of a handful of Texas Rangers and Federal Agents, this book covers a unique and action-packed era in American history. It’s a story that connects the horse and saddle days of the Old West, with the high-octane decade of the Roaring Twenties.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442246706
Publisher:	TwoDot
Publication date:	05/02/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	127,423
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Samuel K. Dolan is a documentary writer, director and Emmy Award winning Producer. Growing up in Northern Arizona, he got his start in film and television at age 13, riding horses in feature films and TV shows. Since 2004, he has produced dozens of programs for History Channel, Military Channel and National Geographic. He served as a series writer and story producer on History Channel’s “Battle 360” about WWII aircraft carrier USS Enterprise. Dolan wrote episodes of a follow-up series “Patton 360” as well as numerous military and history themed programs for History Channel, Military and Discovery’s 3Net. In 2008, Dolan was the recipient of an Emmy Award for his work as producer on History Channel’s A Distant Shore: African-Americans of D-day. In 2010, Dolan helped developed a series for National Geographic called “Navajo Cops” and for two years he led a camera team on patrol with the Navajo Tribal police, writing four episodes of that seven-part series. He has also appeared as an on camera expert in numerous segments for the History Channel and more recently the Military Channel (now known as AHC). He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and 4-year old son.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Six-Guns and Automobiles ix

Chapter 1 The Wail of the Bootlegger 1

Chapter 2 Cold in Death 17

Chapter 3 The Toughest Town on the Santa Fe 40

Chapter 4 The Purity Squad 58

Chapter 5 Manhunt 87

Chapter 6 Dry Agents 118

Chapter 7 Liquor War on the Rio Grande 139

Chapter 8 Where Rough Necks Are Needed 156

Chapter 9 "Honor First" 180

Chapter 10 "You Were Looking for Me Last Night" 201

Chapter 11 Contrabandistas 228

Chapter 12 Brave Men 243

Author's Note 256

Acknowledgments 264

Endnotes 266

Index 311

About the Author 330