A Law for the Lion : : A Tale of Crime and Injustice in the Borderlands / / Beatriz de la Garza.
"Esto no es cosa de armas" (this is not a matter for weapons). These were the last words of Don Francisco Gutiérrez before Alonzo W. Allee shot and killed him and his son, Manuel Gutiérrez. What began as a simple dispute over Allee's unauthorized tenancy on a Gutiérrez family ranch ne...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (160 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Part I August 1912
- Part II A matter for weapons
- Part III So great a prejudice
- Part IV A jury of his peers
- Epilogue: August 1917
- Afterword
- Works cited
- Acknowledgments
- Index