{"product_id":"9780984797769","title":"Tall Tales from the High Plains \u0026 Beyond, Book Three: The LawBreakers","description":"Most 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. \u003cp\u003e- Bob 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\u003e- James McIntire, a lawman turned killer who once claimed he talked with Christ.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Cyrus Skinner whose reign of terror ended in a town appropriately named, Hell Gate.\u003cbr\u003eDeputy Sheriff Charley Allison who organized a gang to of outlaws to rob stagecoaches. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Lame Johnny, a one-time college student who graduated to a criminal career of cattle and horse rustling and robbing stagecoaches. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Belle Starr, wife, mistress, mother, and horse thief, who died from an assassin's bullet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Johnny-Behind-the-Deuce, a card cheat turned killer\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas Rizzo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50086421233904,"sku":"9780984797769","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780984797769","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}