25 Years Behind Prison Bars

BILL MILLS

Publication: Privately printed, nd, NP

First edition or early reprint? Stiff printed wrappers, 56pp., frontis. Born in Rains County, Texas. Beginning in 1910, at 17 years of age, the author served 5 prison terms in Texas, 1 in Oklahoma, and 1 in the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia. Mills was convicted of various crimes including horse theft, armed robbery, and counterfeiting. This interesting account gives much detail of the brutality of life in Texas prisons and prison farms. Information of prison breaks in Oklahoma and Texas is also related. Very good. Very scarce.

Inventory Number: 37448