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Book Review
| Jim Courtright of Fort Worth: His Life and Legend. By Robert K. DeArment. (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 2004. xv + 287 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.)
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Texans around Fort Worth knew him as "Longhaired Jim." Officially, he was Timothy Isaiah Courtright. He was fearless, dazzled adversaries and cohorts with quick draws, worked both sides of the law, and amassed a wealth of good luck, that is until 1887, when he faced Luke Short in a shootout and Short killed him. |
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