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When Judge Isaac Parker first arrived in Fort Smith, Arkansas, the town had thirty saloons and one bank. Inheriting a corrupt court and a lawless territory roughly the size of Great Britain, he immediately put the residents on notice by publicly hanging six convicted felons at one time. For the next two decades, his stern and implacable justice brought law and order to the West ... and made him plenty of enemies.
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Judge Roy Bean was the real-life Justice of the Peace and arbiter of frontier justice. Lillie Langtry was the "Jersey Lily" of the British stage, adored by English society. For more than twenty years, Bean wrote fan letters to the beautiful actress, and Lillie wrote back. They never met. Now award-winning author Loren Estleman brings to life their untold transatlantic love story.
3) Wild justice
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In the spring of 1896, after thirty years spent dispensing justice in Montana, Judge Harlan Blackthorne expires, leaving Deputy U.S. Marshal Page Murdock, his most steadfast officer, to escort his remains across the continent by rail. The long journey is interrupted from time to time by station stops for the public to pay its respects, and for various marching bands to serenade the departed with his favorite ballad, "After the Ball." This gives Murdock...
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