Author: Lee Floren
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Gambler with a Gun
Author: Lee Floren
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Gambler's Guns
Author: Doyle Trent
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 9780821740958
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The veteran Western author of Texas Trackers and Dead Man's Badge deals out a hardridin' story of justice and revenge. The Nash boys kidnap gambling man Johnny Vorhe's sister, after he accidentally kills their father. And, while Johnny checks the loads of his big Colt Dragoon, he knows he's gambling his life on what might be the last bet he'll ever make.
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 9780821740958
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The veteran Western author of Texas Trackers and Dead Man's Badge deals out a hardridin' story of justice and revenge. The Nash boys kidnap gambling man Johnny Vorhe's sister, after he accidentally kills their father. And, while Johnny checks the loads of his big Colt Dragoon, he knows he's gambling his life on what might be the last bet he'll ever make.
Gambler's Gun
Author: John Hunter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780727401076
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780727401076
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Rowdy Joe Lowe
Author: Joseph G. Rosa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780806139623
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A view into the smoke-filled saloons, brothels, and gambling "hells" of the frontier West Joseph Lowe attracted trouble the way a magnet draws iron. Eventually this strange talent cost him his life, but not before he had made his mark in a good many towns of the frontier West. "Rowdy Joe," folks called him. He was every bit of that and more. The life that earned him his nickname began after the Civil War, when he mustered out of the Union Army and went West. He apparently worked as a mule skinner and at other jobs before getting into the entertainment business--saloons, dance halls, gambling parlors, brothels--at Ellsworth, Kansas. In this book the authors explain how taxation was used to control and manipulate what some called "this evil in our midst." In telling the story of Joe Lowe and his place in frontier history, they also focus on the measures taken by city councils to extract cash from the "locusts of lechery" in an effort to curtail their activities. Communities that employed police to enforce local ordinances and state laws found that enforced taxation was not only less deadly than the six-shooter, but more productive. Harsh fines could be imposed for "soliciting" or running a saloon or "house" without a license, and in this manner the city benefited from revenue paid for the privilege of remaining in business. Some like Lowe refused to pay, but invariably they met defeat. When things got hot in Kansas, Joe tried Texas, and then Colorado. It was in Denver that Joe got drunk once too often, repeatedly antagonized a former policeman, and was shot and killed. Rowdy Joe Lowe is a view into the smoke-filled saloons, brothels, and gambling "hells" of those who prospered or perished amongst the pasteboard pirates, pimps, or other characters of the frontier West.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780806139623
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A view into the smoke-filled saloons, brothels, and gambling "hells" of the frontier West Joseph Lowe attracted trouble the way a magnet draws iron. Eventually this strange talent cost him his life, but not before he had made his mark in a good many towns of the frontier West. "Rowdy Joe," folks called him. He was every bit of that and more. The life that earned him his nickname began after the Civil War, when he mustered out of the Union Army and went West. He apparently worked as a mule skinner and at other jobs before getting into the entertainment business--saloons, dance halls, gambling parlors, brothels--at Ellsworth, Kansas. In this book the authors explain how taxation was used to control and manipulate what some called "this evil in our midst." In telling the story of Joe Lowe and his place in frontier history, they also focus on the measures taken by city councils to extract cash from the "locusts of lechery" in an effort to curtail their activities. Communities that employed police to enforce local ordinances and state laws found that enforced taxation was not only less deadly than the six-shooter, but more productive. Harsh fines could be imposed for "soliciting" or running a saloon or "house" without a license, and in this manner the city benefited from revenue paid for the privilege of remaining in business. Some like Lowe refused to pay, but invariably they met defeat. When things got hot in Kansas, Joe tried Texas, and then Colorado. It was in Denver that Joe got drunk once too often, repeatedly antagonized a former policeman, and was shot and killed. Rowdy Joe Lowe is a view into the smoke-filled saloons, brothels, and gambling "hells" of those who prospered or perished amongst the pasteboard pirates, pimps, or other characters of the frontier West.
Gambler's Gun Luck
Author: Austin, Brett
Publisher: New York : Lion Books
ISBN:
Category : Gamblers
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Lion Books
ISBN:
Category : Gamblers
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Rowdy Joe Lowe
Author: Joseph G. Rosa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780806122281
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Traces the life of Joe Lowe, a famous saloon keeper of the Old West, and looks at that aspect of frontier life
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780806122281
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Traces the life of Joe Lowe, a famous saloon keeper of the Old West, and looks at that aspect of frontier life
Six-gun Gambler
Author: Dwight Bennett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Misplaced Angel
Author: VeraLee Wiggins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781557487117
Category : Mothers
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781557487117
Category : Mothers
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Saddles North
Author: Lee Floren
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
Gambler's Gun-Luck
Author: Brett AUSTIN (pseud.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description