My Girlhood Among Outlaws

by Lily Klasner
edited by Eve Ball

University of Arizona Press, 1972
Cloth: 978-0-8165-0328-5 | Paper: 978-0-8165-0354-4
Library of Congress Classification F802.L7K55 1972
Dewey Decimal Classification 917.89640340924

TOC

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction    by Eve Ball                             1
PART I. FROM TEXAS TO NEW MEXICO
1. My Pioneer Ancestry                               13
2. Earliest Recollections                            20
3. Journey to New Mexico                             25
4. Attack by Apaches at Black River                  32
5. The Casey Mill on the Hondo                       36
6. Pioneer Activities and Makeshifts                 43
7. Early Settlers: Upper Lincoln County              51
8. Early Settlers: Lower Lincoln County              63
9. Apache Raid of 1867                               73
10. A Memorable Indian Scout                          79
PART II. REIGN OF THE SIX SHOOTER
11. The Lincoln County Ring                           93
12. The Harrell War                                  100
13. The Casey Store and Its Clerks                   109
14. Ash Upson: Rolling Stone of the West             116
15. Murder Most Foul and The Law's Vengeance        124
16. Abneth McCabe: A Friend in Need                 137
17. Happenings on the Feliz                         147
18. Plagues and Pestilences                         161
19. Echoes of the Lincoln County War                169
20. Aftermath                                       179
21. Bob Olinger as I Knew Him                       183
22. School-teaching on the Pefiasco                 192
23. The Sutton-Nixon Killing                        199
24. Tragedies and Shooting Scrapes                  204
25. The Sinewy and Powerful Arm of The Law          216
PART III. JOHN SIMPSON CHISUM
26. The Texas Period                                229
27. Trouble With Indians                            242
28. Trouble With Cattle Rustlers                    250
29. Antagonism From the Ring                        260
30. A Cattle King's Business                        288
31. Heyday of the South Spring River Ranch          296
32. Trail's End for the Cow King                    308
33. Characteristics and Opinions                    315
Index                                           331

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