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Getting Away With Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings & Celebrated Trials. By Bill Neal. Foreword by Gordon Morris Bakken. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2006. xix + 308 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $27.95.)
      Former prosecutor and defense attorney Bill Neal examines several cases of robbery and murder in Texas "west of Fort Worth and north of Abilene," as well as in western Oklahoma, between about 1890 and 1920 (p. xviii). After a formulaic account of a "lawless frontier" and a brief nod to some of the scholarship about crime and punishment in the West, Neal launches into eight chapters of lively stories that emphasize the attorneys, the judges, the legal strategies, and the courtroom drama of these largely-forgotten trials. . . .
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