Author: Cass County Historical & Genealogical Society (Mo.)
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Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Book '6' Deed Index, August 1870 to September 1872, Cass County Missouri
Author: Cass County Historical & Genealogical Society (Mo.)
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Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Publisher:
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Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Book '7' Deed Index, May 1872 to April 1874, Cass County Missouri
Author: Cass County Historical & Genealogical Society (Mo.)
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Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Book #2 Deed Index, January 1, 1857 Thru July 6 1866, Cass County Missouri
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Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 47
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Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 47
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Book '5' Deed Index, June 1869 to March 1871, Cass County Missouri
Author: Cass County Historical & Genealogical Society (Mo.)
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Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Publisher:
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Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Book '3' Deed Index, July 1866 to April 1868, Cass County Missouri
Author: Cass County Historical & Genealogical Society (Mo.)
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Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Book #1 Deed Index, March 15,1837 Thru July 10 1857, Cass County Missouri
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Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Book '8' Deed Index, February 9, 1874 to May 1, 1876, Cass County Missouri
Author: Cass County Historical & Genealogical Society (Mo.)
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Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Publisher:
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Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Book #'4' Deed Index, March 1868 to October 1869, Cass County, Missouri
Author: Cass County Historical & Genealogical Society (Mo.)
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Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Publisher:
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Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Book '0' Deed Index, January 1838 to December 1855, Cass County Missouri
Author: Cass County Historical & Genealogical Society (Mo.)
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Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Murder in Montague
Author: Glen Sample Ely
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806167750
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
On a sweltering August night in 1876, Methodist minister William England, his wife, Selena, and two of her children were brutally slaughtered in their North Texas home. Acting on Selena’s deathbed testimony, a neighbor, his brother-in-law, and a friend were arrested and tried for the murders. Murder in Montague tells the story of this gruesome crime and its murky aftermath. In this engrossing blend of true crime reporting, social drama, and legal history, author Glen Sample Ely presents a vivid snapshot of frontier justice and retribution in Texas following the Civil War. The sheer brutality of the Montague murders terrified settlers already traumatized by decades of chaos, violence, and fear—from the deadly raids of Comanche and Kiowa Indians to the terrors of vigilantes, lynchings, and Reconstruction lawlessness. But the crime's aftermath—involving five Texas governors, five trials at Montague and Gainesville, five appeals to the Texas Court of Appeals, and three life sentences at hard labor in the state's abominable and inhumane prison system—offered little in the way of reassurance or resolution. Viewed from any perspective, the 1876 England family murders were both a human tragedy and a miscarriage of justice. Combining the long view of history and the intimate detail of true crime reporting, Murder in Montague deftly captures this moment of reckoning in the story of Texas, as vigilante justice grudgingly gave way to an established system of law and order.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806167750
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
On a sweltering August night in 1876, Methodist minister William England, his wife, Selena, and two of her children were brutally slaughtered in their North Texas home. Acting on Selena’s deathbed testimony, a neighbor, his brother-in-law, and a friend were arrested and tried for the murders. Murder in Montague tells the story of this gruesome crime and its murky aftermath. In this engrossing blend of true crime reporting, social drama, and legal history, author Glen Sample Ely presents a vivid snapshot of frontier justice and retribution in Texas following the Civil War. The sheer brutality of the Montague murders terrified settlers already traumatized by decades of chaos, violence, and fear—from the deadly raids of Comanche and Kiowa Indians to the terrors of vigilantes, lynchings, and Reconstruction lawlessness. But the crime's aftermath—involving five Texas governors, five trials at Montague and Gainesville, five appeals to the Texas Court of Appeals, and three life sentences at hard labor in the state's abominable and inhumane prison system—offered little in the way of reassurance or resolution. Viewed from any perspective, the 1876 England family murders were both a human tragedy and a miscarriage of justice. Combining the long view of history and the intimate detail of true crime reporting, Murder in Montague deftly captures this moment of reckoning in the story of Texas, as vigilante justice grudgingly gave way to an established system of law and order.