HENRY BROWN The Outlaw-Marshal

Hardback. Regular US Limited Edition, 1500 copies. The Early West Series. Henry Newton Brown, the city marshal of Caldwell, Kansas, had been caught after attempting to rob the Medicine Lodge Bank of Kansas in April of 1884. He had been in jail before, but never as a badge-wearing marshal. Brown had hunted buffalo on the great plains, ridden with Billy the Kid during the Lincoln County War, and had upheld the law in Old Tascosa. William Bonney, Pat Garrett, John Chisum, John Tunstall, Alex McSween, Buckshot Roberts, and Charles Siringo: he had known them all and had fought with and against them. He had been jailed in Medicine Lodge with his accomplices, but he had a plan, one that would give him one more chance and a fresh start. The townspeople were beginning to mill about the small jail in the darkness. They sounded more and more like a mob bent on a lynching. Henry and his 3 companions had managed to pry themselves loose from their handcuffs and leg irons. The mob was coming to take them from the jail. Brown had coiled himself behind the jailhouse door and was ready when the first men threw open the door. Henry charged into the crowd, breaking for freedom and the safety of darkness. It had worked. He had caught the disorganised crowd by surprise. His stride lengthened as he broke past the crowd and beyond Bill Kelley who was holding a double barrel shotgun. Henry Brown wanted one more chance, just one more chance. Illus., Bibliog., Index + Bill O'Neal - Biographical Sketch. 165pp. 8vo. h/back. With pictorial eps. F. in protected F. dw.