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Book Review
| Last of the Old-Time Outlaws: The George West Musgrave Story. By Karen Holliday Tanner and John D. Tanner, Jr. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. vi + 374 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.)
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The last of the old-time outlaws, according to the authors, was George West Musgrave, a sometime charming and soft-spoken career armed robber, cattle rustler, and killer. Born in 1877, in Atacosa County, Texas, Musgrave came to manhood in the early twentieth century, during the second terrible phase of western violence. |
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In 1890, under the threat of incarceration for George's older brother, the Musgrave family sold out and left Texas for New Mexico. Four years later, seventeen-year-old George stole his first calf. He then spent the next seventeen years engaged in a criminal career, mostly in New Mexico, Arizona, and Mexico, often on the run from a host of lawmen. |
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