Word: badmen
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...Pete Traxler beside him, a gun in his lap. Behind Trimmer sat Tindol also with a gun and across the seat sat graying little James Denton-whose middle name was Ethel because his parents hoped for a girl- wondering what his wife and three children would do if the badmen decided to kill him when dark came. Traxler and Tindol, who had been living on liquor and were dog tired, were sort of dozing. Suddenly Denton winked at Trimmer. Then he grabbed the gun in Tindol's lap and shot. Then he shot Traxler. Tindol reached for his rifle...
THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON- Thomas Ripley - Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). In all the highly publicized activities of Western badmen, the multiple killings of John Wesley Hardin have been more or less neglected. A tough, blue-eyed, wavy-haired east Texas moppet who grew up when his State was occupied by Yankee troops and hated carpetbaggers, Hardin killed his first man, an ex-slave, when he was 15. In the next nine years he killed approximately 43 more. Sentenced to 25 years in prison, Hardin served 16 before he was pardoned, wrote an autobiography, studied law, practiced in El Paso...
Texas Rangers were still combing the coulees for cattle thieves and badmen when the Texas Pacific Land Trust was organized in 1888. Its assets were 3,450,000 acres of Texas land originally granted by the State of Texas to Texas Pacific Railway. Its liabilities were $10,370,000 of certificates issued in a reorganization of that railroad which segregated the land grants from the carrier properties. And its purpose was liquidation...
...bagatelle players in the U. S. He wears a big black hat and his trousers outside his boot tops, speaks little and that little in a slow, courteous drawl. In Texas his marksmanship and speed on the draw are famed. His favorite revolver he calls "Betty" and some 60 badmen have died at his hand. For 27 years before November 1932, he was a Texas ranger. "When they elected a woman governor for the second time," he explained, "I quit." One morning last week he was in Bienville Parish, La. as a special highway patrol officer. With him were three...
Actor Otis Skinnert mild-mannered son of a clergyman, talked with a reporter about the "joyous murderer Hajj" and other badmen he has portrayed on the stage. He sighed. "The only part that I have not played and wanted to play is lago in Othello. There is a delightfully villainous person." Then he said: "I might like to play Al Capone...