Frontier Justice in the Wild West

Frontier Justice highlights eighteen crimes and subsequent punishments of the most interesting controversial and unusual executions from an era when hangings and shootings were a legal means of capital punishment. Learn about the bungled hanging of Tom Ketchum who was beheaded by the noose; the unique trigger for the trapdoor used to hang Tom Horn; "Big Nose" George Parrott who was skinned pickled and made into a pair of shoes; the double trials of Jack McCall assassin of Wild Bill Hickok; the hanging of a woman-Elizabeth Potts; the shooting of John D. Lee of Mountain Meadows Massacre infamy; and the only use of a double "twitch-up" gallows; etc. Each action-packed chapter includes biographical information the pursuit the investigation legal maneuvers trial information and rarely-seen photographs. <BR />