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Opere di Edward Everett Dale

Cow Country (1942) 28 copie
A History of Oklahoma (1924) 10 copie
History of Oklahoma (1948) 10 copie
Tales of the Tepee (1998) 9 copie

Opere correlate

Utah Historical Quarterly - Vol. 26, No. 2, April 1958 (1958) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

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Data di nascita
1879-02-08
Data di morte
1972-05-28
Luogo di sepoltura
Norman, OK
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
USA
Luogo di nascita
Keller, Texas, USA
Luogo di morte
Norman, Oklahoma, USA
Attività lavorative
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I first encountered Frank Canton as the chief thug of the rancher side in the Johnson County War. This autobiography is filled with interesting details, and Canton seems to have had an effect on the creation of the cowboy-gunfighter hero of Fiction.
He began life as Joe Horner, and under that name, robbed several banks in Nebraska. But he got away with that, and then, the money having run out, he turned to being the violence wing of the Ranching elite in Wyoming.
After the Johnson County fiasco, he slipped more firmly into the world of law enforcement, and ended as a figure of respectability. His sins never seem to have caught up with him. The book is entertaining.
I read a 1972 reprint.
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Utenti
230
Popolarità
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Voto
½ 3.3
Recensioni
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ISBN
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