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Now, for the first time, Robert K. DeArment has told the full story of George Scarboroughs life, illuminating his activity as a lawman during the final part of the nineteenth century and his controversial killings while wearing the badge-he was tried for murder on three occasions and acquitted each time.

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title:George Scarborough : The Life and Death of a Lawman On the Closing Frontier
author:DeArment, Robert K.
publisher:University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin:080612850X
print isbn13:9780806128504
ebook isbn13:9780585148069
language:English
subjectScarborough, George Adolphus,--1859-1900, Peace officers--Southwest, New--Biography, Frontier and pioneer life--Southwest, New, Southwest, New--Biography, Law enforcement--Southwest, New--History--19th century.
publication date:1996
lcc:F786.S3D43 1996eb
ddc:363.2/092
subject:Scarborough, George Adolphus,--1859-1900, Peace officers--Southwest, New--Biography, Frontier and pioneer life--Southwest, New, Southwest, New--Biography, Law enforcement--Southwest, New--History--19th century.
Page i
George Scarborough
Page Frontispiece
George Adolphus Scarborough Courtesy Western History Collections University - photo 2
George Adolphus Scarborough. Courtesy Western
History Collections, University of Oklahoma Library.
Page iii
George Scarborough
The Life and Death of a Lawman on the Closing Frontier
By Robert K. DeArment
Foreword by Leon C. Metz
University of Oklahoma Press : Norman and London
Page iv
By Robert K. DeArment
Bat Masterson: The Man and the Legend (Norman, 1979)
Knights of the Green Cloth: The Saga of the Frontier Gamblers (Norman, 1982)
George Scarborough: The Life and Death of a Lawman on the Closing Frontier (Norman, 1992)
For Rosemary, Paul, Joan, and Diana of whom I am very proud
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
DeArment, Robert K., 1925
George Scarborough: the life and death of a lawman on the closing
frontier / by Robert K. DeArment; foreword by Leon C. Metz.1st
ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8061-2406-7 (alk. paper)
1. Scarborough, George Adolphus, 1859-1900. 2. Peace officers
Southwest, NewBiography. 3. Frontier and pioneer life
Southwest, New. 4. Southwest, NewBiography. 5. Law
enforcementSouthwest, NewHistory19th century. I. Title.
F786.S3D43 1992
363.2'092dc20
[B]Picture 3Picture 4Picture 5Picture 691-30145
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc. Picture 7
Copyright 1992 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A. First edition.
Page v
Contents
Foreword, by Leon Metz
ix
Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
xiii
1. Introduction to Violence: Popcorn in a Skillet
3
2. A Glorious Trip
15
3. The Bravest Man
24
4. Running Men
41
5. The Man with No Soul
60
6. The Day of the Mankillers
77
7. "Boys, You've Killed Me"
95
8. Drink and Frenzy
113
9. "He Kept Monkeying with His Gun"
133
10. The Cautious Breed
157
11. Afraid of No Man
172
12. Old Scarbrow
189
13. Gone to A. T.
210
14. Outlaw Identity
230
15. Ed
247
Afterword
262
Notes
265
Bibliography
297
Index
307

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George Adolphus Scarborough
Frontispiece
George Washington Scarborough
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