{"product_id":"2940152343038","title":"Tall Tales from the High Plains \u0026 Beyond, Book Three: The LawBreakers","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost of the people who settled in the West didn’t wake up in the morning and strap on a gun. Nor did they get involved in shootouts. As in any society, the Old West had its share of bad men and women. The rate of homicides on the frontier remains a source of contention. Some historians say most towns averaged about 1.5 murders a year, not all of them shooting. Others however, say the risk of being murdered was high. In Tall Tales from the High Plains \u0026amp; Beyond, Book Three: The LawBreakers, novelist Tom Rizzo takes you behind the scenes to meet some of the gunmen and back shooters who roamed the frontier trying to take what wasn’t theirs:\u003cbr\u003eBob Rogers who slashed the throat of a deputy constable, left him to die, and then returned to the crime scene to attack the dead man’s corpse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames McIntire, a lawman turned killer who once claimed he talked with Christ.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCyrus Skinner whose reign of terror ended in a town appropriately named, Hell Gate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeputy Sheriff Charley Allison who organized a gang to of outlaws to rob stagecoaches.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLame Johnny, a one-time college student who graduated to a criminal career of cattle and horse rustling and robbing stagecoaches.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBelle Starr, wife, mistress, mother, and horse thief, who died from an assassin’s bullet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohnny-Behind-the-Deuce, a card cheat turned killer\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tom Rizzo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47168262930672,"sku":"2940152343038","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940152343038_p0.jpg?v=1764019804","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940152343038","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}