When Law Was In The Holster. The Frontier Life Of Bob Paul.

JOHN BOESSENECKER

Publication: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012, Norman

First edition. 8vo. Cloth, xviii, 484 pp., frontis., preface, acknowledgments, illustrated, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Bob Paul (1830-1901) was one of the great lawmen of the Old West and he cast a giant shadow across the frontiers of California and Arizona Territory for nearly 50 years. Today he is remembered for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and his involvement at the gunfight near the OK Corral in Tombstone in 1881. In the 1880s he became sheriff of Pima County, Arizona, and a railroad detective for the Southern Pacific Railway. In 1880 President Benjamin Harrison appointed him U. S. Marshal of Arizona Territory. Many problems of Paul's reign as a lawman parallel those of today frontier politics, electoral corruption, Mexican/U. S. relations, border security, illegal immigration, smuggling on the Mexican border, youth gangs, racial discrimination, ethnic violence, etc. As New in dust jacket.

Inventory Number: 52080