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Badmen on the Wyoming frontier? Many were lynched, but seven were legally hanged. You are respectfully invited to attend the executions.Badmen thrived in Wyoming Territory, but law and legal processes also existed. The frontier was so "civilized" that those men sentenced to hang were allowed to issue formal invitations to their executions.Read of the true stories of the crimes, lawmen, capture, investigations, escapes, trials, and deaths of th...

Coyotes & Canaries delves into the lives of some of the most intriguing historical figures in Wyoming--indeed in all the West. Author Larry Brown introduces us to such characters as Lou Polk and Dell Burke, soiled doves who not only survived but prospered, Ella "Cattle Kate" Watson who, due to the greed of others, died at the end of a rope, writer Owen Wister, suffragette and historian Grace Raymond Hebard, artist Juan Menchaca, world champion...

Historian Larry Brown once again uses his incredible research skills to bring the Old West to life. In this third volume of Brown's territorial crime series, he introduces us to the twenty-three women who served time in Old Wyoming's penitentiary.What did these women, wearing frills, lace, and their best bonnets for their mug shots, do to deserve time behind bars? Anna Bruce baked poison into her father's plum pie, Anna Trout abandoned her gra...

Historian Larry Brown once again uses his incredible research skills to bring the Old West to life. In this third volume of Brown's territorial crime series, he introduces us to the twenty-three women who served time in Old Wyoming's penitentiary.What did these women, wearing frills, lace, and their best bonnets for their mug shots, do to deserve time behind bars? Anna Bruce baked poison into her father's plum pie, Anna Trout abandoned her gra...

Larry Brown has Gathered the stories of Wyoming's hog ranches, from Mother Featherlegs' place to the Nine Mile Ranch to the Hog Ranch at Fetterman. These colorful sties were brimming with sin, gunplay, gambling, murder, outlaws, and romance. There, a customer might while away his free time with a shot of rye, a game of faro, and a roll in the crib with a "soiled angel" made passably attractive by loneliness and miles of sage.