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title	:	Dallas Stoudenmire : El Paso Marshal Western Frontier Library ; V. 53
author	:	Metz, Leon Claire.
publisher	:	University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0806124873
print isbn13	:	9780806124872
ebook isbn13	:	9780806171760
language	:	English
subject	Stoudenmire, Dallas,--1845-1882, Peace officers--Texas--El Paso--Biography, Frontier and pioneer life--Texas--El Paso, El Paso (Tex.)--History.
publication date	:	1993
lcc	:	F394.E4S766 1993eb
ddc	:	976.4/0099
subject	:	Stoudenmire, Dallas,--1845-1882, Peace officers--Texas--El Paso--Biography, Frontier and pioneer life--Texas--El Paso, El Paso (Tex.)--History.

Dallas Stoudenmire The Western Frontier Library

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Page iii Dallas Stoudenmire El Paso Marshal Leon C. Metz University of Oklahoma Press Norman and London

Page iv By Leon C. Metz: John Selman, Texas Gunfighter (New York. 1966) Pat Garrett: The Story of a Western Lawman (Norman, 1974) Dallas Stoudenmire : El Paso Marshal (Austin, 1969: Norman, 1979) To MARLENE, for the neglected years and the lost opportunities, with her father's affection Dallas Stoudenmire: El Paso Marshal is Volume 53 in The Western Frontier Library. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 70-79109 ISBN: 0-8061-2487-3 Copyright 1969 by The Pemberton Press. Copyright transferred 1979 to the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A. First paperback printing, 1993. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Page v Contents Preface vii Prologue xi 1 Wanteda Town tamer 1 2 El Paso in transition 11 3 Stoudenmirethe early years 24 4 Four dead men in five seconds 34 5 Attempted assassination 48 6 The Railroad comes to Town 55 7 Crime bustingEl Paso style 61 8 Stoudenmire's feud with the Texas Rangers 70 9 The strange life & death of Stanley M. "Doc" Cummings 82 10 The StoudenmireManning Brothers feud 92 11 Stoudenmire's Political feud 100 12 Prelude to a gunfight 109 13 A gunfight at Frank Mannings Saloon 114 14 End of an era 119 15 Day of judgement 125 Footnotes 129 Bibliography 147 Acknowledgements 153 Index 157

Page vi Illustrations Between Pages 60 and 61 Ed Scotten William Hale John Hale Family Dallas Stoudenmire James B. Gillett and L. S. Turnbo Capt. George W. Baylor The Gem Saloon Dallas Stoudenmire Stoudenmire's Gun El Paso Street W. W. Mills Joseph Magoffin "Doc" Manning James Manning George Felix "Doc" Manning Family James Manning Family and Frank Manning The Lone Star, El Paso's first modern newspaper Unidentified photograph found on Stoudenmire's body

Page vii Preface It is impossible to imagine the City of El Paso, Texas, in 1881 without City Marshal Dallas Stoudenmire. The two belonged together like Horatius and the bridge, Achilles and Troy, Davy Crockett and the Alamo. Their destinies were intertwined. In January 1881 El Paso was a quiet adobe community of five hundred people more Mexican than American. Solid marriages united Hispanic and Anglo names. Twelve miles to the east was Ysleta, the county seat. The sheriff was there, as were the Texas Rangers. The Territory of New Mexico lay directly to the north, and Juarez, Chihuahua, to the south. El Paso was at the edge of the known world of Texas. Then, in May, the Southern Pacific arrived, its rickety cars hauling in an avalanche of vagrants, railroad hands, murderers, preachers, developers, soldiers, politicians, cattlemen, con artists, miners, asthmatics, gamblers, and shady ladies. This wayfaring, unattached, footloose population simply overwhelmed the traditions. The traces of Old World Spain disappeared almost overnight. Juarez, until now the dominant community, became Old Town.

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