Speaking ill of the dead : jerks in Colorado history / Phyllis J. Perry.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot PressCopyright date: ©2011Description: vi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • General
ISBN:
  • 9780762727056 (pbk.)
  • 0762727055 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 978.8 23
LOC classification:
  • F776.6 .P47 2011
Contents:
g Ch. 1. John C. Frémont and Bill Williams -- Ch. 2. Colonel John M. Chivington -- Ch. 3. Windham Thomas Wyndam-Quin -- Ch. 4. Griffith Evans -- Ch. 5. Alferd Packer -- Ch. 6 Doc Holliday and Bat Masterson -- Ch. 7. John Gillis Mills, Sheriff Charles Royer, and Undersheriff William Redman -- Ch. 8 Silver King Horace A. W. Tabor -- Ch. 9. Soapy Smith -- Ch. 10. Queen Ann Bassett -- Ch. 11. Tom Horn -- Ch. 12. Jennie Rogers and Mattie Silks -- Ch. 13. Adjutant General Chase and Lieutenant Karl Linderfeldt -- Ch. 14. Benjamin Franklin Stapleton -- Ch. 15. John Galen Locke -- Ch. 16. Governor Clarence Morley -- Ch. 17. Captain Louis Scherf.
Summary: "Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Colorado History" features seventeen short profiles of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of the Centennial State. Phyllis J. Perry reveals the dark side of some well-known and even revered characters from Colorado's past -- both part-time Jerks and others who were Jerks through and through"--P. [4] of cover.
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Books Books Idaho Springs Public Library Colorado History CO HIST 978.8 PER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 30404100238037
Books Books John Tomay Memorial Library Colorado History CO HIST 978.8 PER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31030100042035

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-219) and index.

g Ch. 1. John C. Frémont and Bill Williams -- Ch. 2. Colonel John M. Chivington -- Ch. 3. Windham Thomas Wyndam-Quin -- Ch. 4. Griffith Evans -- Ch. 5. Alferd Packer -- Ch. 6 Doc Holliday and Bat Masterson -- Ch. 7. John Gillis Mills, Sheriff Charles Royer, and Undersheriff William Redman -- Ch. 8 Silver King Horace A. W. Tabor -- Ch. 9. Soapy Smith -- Ch. 10. Queen Ann Bassett -- Ch. 11. Tom Horn -- Ch. 12. Jennie Rogers and Mattie Silks -- Ch. 13. Adjutant General Chase and Lieutenant Karl Linderfeldt -- Ch. 14. Benjamin Franklin Stapleton -- Ch. 15. John Galen Locke -- Ch. 16. Governor Clarence Morley -- Ch. 17. Captain Louis Scherf.

"Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Colorado History" features seventeen short profiles of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of the Centennial State. Phyllis J. Perry reveals the dark side of some well-known and even revered characters from Colorado's past -- both part-time Jerks and others who were Jerks through and through"--P. [4] of cover.

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