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Murder & mayhem in Prescott

Title
  1. Murder & mayhem in Prescott / Drew Desmond and Bradley G. Courtney.
Published by
  1. Charleston, SC : History Press, 2020
  2. ©2020
Author
  1. Desmond, Drew

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Additional authors
  1. Courtney, Bradley G.
Description
  1. 111 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
  1. "Despite its early law enforcement presence, Prescott's place in the violent history of Yavapai County is written in blood. The jealousy, greed and pure meanness of some of its citizens produced shocking trails of destruction and death. The Keystone Saloon couldn't keep a proprietor--a series of owners was found dead with gunshot wounds. A driver-for-hire was brutally assaulted and his car stolen in Prescott's first homicidal carjacking. Two nurses conspired to poison a rich patient in their care. From the shootout that began Virgil Earp's career to knifings and dynamite attacks, Prescott history blogger Drew Desmond and Whiskey Row historian and author Bradley G. Courtney tell rarely heard stories that once rocked the town."--Back cover.
Alternative title
  1. Murder and mayhem in Prescott
Subject
  1. To 1912
  2. Crime > Arizona > Prescott > History
  3. Crime
  4. Prescott (Ariz.) > History
  5. Yavapai County (Ariz.) > History
  6. Arizona > History > To 1912
  7. West (U.S.) > History > 1860-1890
  8. Arizona
  9. Arizona > Prescott
  10. Arizona > Yavapai County
  11. West United States
Genre/Form
  1. History
Contents
  1. 1 Violence Finds Its Way into Early Whiskey Row's Popular Diana Saloon p. 7 -- 2 William Jennings: Prescott's Hero and Insane Man from the Hassayampa p. 13 -- 3 Murder-Or Was It?-On Montezuma Street p. 17 -- 4 Virgil Earp Joins Posse That Kills Two Outlaws p. 25 -- 5 Murder in the New Palace Saloon p. 29 -- 6 Curse of the Keystone Saloon p. 32 -- 7 Dynamite Demon of Whiskey Row p. 39 -- 8 A Makeshift Underground Tourist Attraction p. 46 -- 9 Granny Get Your Gun p. 53 -- 10 Dynamite Attack on J.S. Acker p. 60 -- 11 Rich Ranchman Tries to Get Away with It p. 64 -- 12 Murder Plot at the Pioneers' Home p. 72 -- 13 Shot the Messenger p. 76 -- 14 Christmas Butcher p. 83 -- 15 Taken for a Ride p. 88 -- 16 Former Boxing Manager Beats His Wealthy Frail Friend to Death p. 99.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library