Season of terror : the Espinosas in central Colorado, March/October 1863 / / Charles F. Price.

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Timberline books
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Physical Description:xix, 331 p. :; ill., port.
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Table of Contents:
  • "Alarming intelligence and intense excitement": first murders in the Pike's Peak country
  • "Most horrible and fiendish murders": the bleeding of South Park begins
  • "There has been considerable excitement": the First Colorado Cavalry steps in
  • "The people are scared nearly to death here": the murderers strike at the vitals of South Park
  • "Fallen into the hands of hard men in an evil hour": the lynching of Baxter
  • "Glorious news! The mysterious murders unraveled at last": one of the slayers slain
  • "Desperate and lawless bravos": the brothers Espinosa
  • "Revenge for the infamies committed against our families": serial murder as vendetta
  • "Malicious interference was the cause": the scapegoating of Captain E. Wayne Eaton
  • "Times have become quiet again": panic recedes in South Park but murder moves elsewhere
  • "Ready for any duty, untiring, and full of energy": Samuel F. Tappan takes up the hunt for the Espinosas
  • "If this woman is found dead, tell the people the Espinosas of the conejos killed her": the attack on Philbrook and Dolores Snches
  • "I drew his head back over a fallen tree and cut it off": Tom Tobin ends the terror
  • "The brightest success rewarded them for their toils": Tobin brings in the heads
  • "Who is there to gather the history of this wretch?": the Espinosas remembered
  • "Times with me have sadly changed": destinies.