SHOT DOWN! Capital Crimes of Casper, Wyoming

Hardback. Murders, crimes of passion, lynching, barroom brawls - they exploded with the birth of the new town of Casper, Wyoming. The author chronicles the capital crimes of Casper from 1890 to 1913, and tells of the first murder when a bartender in Louella Polk's dance hall shot "Red Jack" Tidwell, this only months after Black Dogae Lee cut off Polk's nose. Read about the most famous murder, when Harvey "Kid Curry" Logan killed popular sheriff Joe Hazen. Learn of Casper's first lynching, when justice didn't move fast enough for the leading citizens who wore masks as they strung up Charles Woodard. Also includes Marshall Bill Hodge who shot an unarmed cowboy, perhaps accidentally; Dr. Joseph Benson, who tried to perform a post-mortem on a still-living patient and later died in a jailhouse fire set by his own hand; Joel Hurt, a prominent local businessman who was acquitted after murdering young Billy Milne, whom many suspected was having an affair wuth Hurt's wife; George Edwards, who killed two men in unrelated incidents to protect his wife's virtue + much more. Illus., Bibliog. and Index. 158pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true-crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. in f. dw. A Limited Numbered Edn. (139/299) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.