Satan's paradise:
by Cleaveland, Agnes Morley
Published by : Houghton Mifflin Company (Riverside Press Cambridge) (Boston, MA) Physical details: 274 p.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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| sw 900 - 999 | Book Cart | 978.9 Cle (Browse shelf) | Available | In Memory of : Col. Davenport | 22616 |
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Cimarron means wild -- Feudal law.
Lucien Maxwell -- The law on their hip.
Uncle Dick Wootton -- Law and order.
Rough justice --
Clay Allison --
Charles Kennedy --
Henry Lambert --
William Raymond Morley --
Mary Lambert and her sons --
The Black Jack Gang --
The making of a law officer --
The comedy of danger --
Capture by Stanley Steamer --
For love of Little Sweetheart --
Fred invades old Mexico --
Mysteries of old Fort Union --
Death and the tax assessor --
Fred helps a thief escape --
Trouble with visiting fireman --
Fred fulfills a trust --
Katie Lambert's roving commission --
"Old Man" Roberts returns a favor --
Man charmer --
Fred becomes a squaw --
The White Caps ride again --
Silent midnight --
Manuel adopts the Lamberts --
Fred brings them back alive --
Chicken for Señor Torres --
Reunion in Juarez --
Law and order in the trail herd --
Fred breaks a gang of sheep thieves --
A Republican Apache --
Children of Cimarron.
"Chronicles of Colfax County, and Cimarron in particular, are given a personal touch as the author parades a series of personalities and incidents gathered from family history and first hand interviews. The controversial Maxwell Land Grant whose master Lucien B. Maxwell continued a feudal tradition, the claims of English and Dutch, the part that Clay Allison, Dick Wootton and his toll gate, the rowdies and the trail blazers, the law officers and Fred Lambert especially are part of the story which encompasses some eight generations of life in New Mexico. From the time when there was a personal and private interpretation of justice, when a new land was being carved out in spite of the emergencies of frontier living, on to the day of the Stanley Steamer and airplane, here is a procession of man hunts, cattle thieves, Indians, episodes above and below the border, disputes over land and the means by which they were settled -- all in nostalgic presentation. For the Western fan -- the real stuff, and for the readers of her previous No Life For A Lady (1941) there's still the same sparkle and warmth"--Kirkus reviews. Cimarron, which means wild, untamed, unbroken, was the name its founder gave the tiny town. "Satan's Paradise," the Methodist circuit rider called it as he ran for horse. Her all the wildness of wild New Mexico was rounded up and left to bellow. Yet men struggled to bring order out of the chaos.
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