Ghosts, Gold Diggers and Gun Slingers

Richard Murphy

Xlibris Corporation, Sep 2, 2011 - Fiction - 128 pages

What turned Atlanta professional man John Henry Doc Holiday into a stone cold killer? What was Docs weapon of choice? Who really killed Pat Garrett? Did Wyatt Earp ever track down his brother Virgils killer? What minister of the gospel became the wests deadliest paid killer? Who was the wildest of Butch Cassidys Wild Bunch? What catastrophe almost wiped out the cattle business in 1888? What were the wests greatest gold strikes and how were they discovered? Does the ghost of pioneer Brit Bailey still stalk the prairie near Old Brazoria? Author Murphy answers these intriguing questions and many other in this book aptly titled Ghosts, Gold Diggers and Gun Slingers, which is the product of a lifetime of research and several years of writing and rewriting.

Contents

• Introduction: 9
• The Curse on Baileys Prairie: 11
• The Narrow Escapes of Walter Lane: 18
• Bloodbath at Battle Creek: 26
• The Barefoot Ranger: 33
• Deathwatch on Don Cella Street: 38
• The Golden Critters: 48
• The Secret Life of Judge Roy Bean: 53
• The Wildest of the Bunch: 60
• DOC: 68
• Who Killed Pat Garrett?: 76
• The Attoyac Atrocity: 83
• The Night When the Moon Turned Blue: 98
• August Hate: 103
• Souvenirs in Red: 114
• Only Human: 120

About the author

RICHARD MURPHY is a WWII vet and journalist who has written for newspapers and magazines for many years, lives in Texas, and has a great-great-grandfather who was Sam Houston’s aide-de-camp at San Jacinto and a granduncle who was one of the original Texas Rangers. Perhaps this heritage explains his intense interest in history and the Wild West. He resides in San Augustine, Texas with wife Mae, and they have two grown children and three grandchildren. He attended Baylor but has a degree in English-History from Lamar University.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Ghosts, Gold Diggers and Gun Slingers
• Author: Richard Murphy
• Illustrated by: Richard Murphy
• Publisher: Xlibris Corporation, 2011
• ISBN: 1465347402, 9781465347404
• Length: 128 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Westerns