Frontier Violence: Another Look

by W. Eugene Hollon

Trade Size PB-No shelf wear, no scuffs, tight binding, clean pages, has small coffee stain on front cover, spine is lined, smoke/pet free home. Ships anywhere 7 days a week

Genres: History

292 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1976

Reviews

[Steve Scott · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think the history is a bit off, a bit inaccurate, perhaps dated. At one point he states John Wesley Hardin killed his first man at age 11...which is perhaps an urban myth at best. That said, it gives a good account of some of the violence done to minority populations in the west. Much of it was new to me.

Still a recommended read. It was a page turner.

[Nicolai Zwick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Didn’t expect a textbook but got one. It accomplishes what it’s trying to do I guess. Informative.

[Rae · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just how violent was the West? How did it compare to urban areas? What prejudices existed that exacerbated the violence? The author examines each of these questions in this dated but still relevant book. His section on the Mormons is interesting because he is one of the few historians who defends them and expresses the opinion that their treatment was indeed heinous. His section on the Earps and Tombstone was prejudicial, however, and somewhat inaccurate in light of today's scholarship. Interesting material.

[Sam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Most of the book is made up of accounts of frontier violence and then the last chapter seems to switch gears and argue that the West was actually pretty civilized.

[Mike Davis]

There's a poem here concerning a murder in a small town.Everyone knows the blacksmith did it,he even admitted it.
Everyone decides someone has to die,an eye for an eyr.


But what is the town to do without their blackmith?
"So we took the Chinese laundry man and strung him up"(or something like that)