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- Death on the Lonely Llano Estacado: The Assassination of J. W. Jarrott, a Forgotten Hero
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: University of North Texas Press
- Series: A. C. Greene Series
summary
In the winter of 1901, James W. Jarrott led a band of twenty-five homesteader families toward the Llano Estacado in far West Texas, newly opened for settlement by a populist Texas legislature. But frontier cattlemen who had been pasturing their herds on the unfenced prairie land were enraged by the encroachment of these “nesters.” In August 1902 a famous hired assassin, Jim Miller, ambushed and murdered J. W. Jarrott. Who hired Miller? This crime has never been solved, until now. Award-winning author Bill Neal investigates this cold case and successfully pieces together all the threads of circumstantial evidence to fit the noose snugly around the neck of Jim Miller’s employer. What emerges from these pages is the strength of intriguing characters in an engrossing narrative: Jim Jarrott, the diminutive advocate who fearlessly champions the cause of the little guy. The ruthless and slippery assassin, Deacon Jim Miller. And finally Jarrott’s young widow Mollie, who perseveres and prospers against great odds and tells the settlers to “Stay put!”
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Table of Contents
- pp. v-vi
- List of Figures
- pp. vii-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Dedication
- pp. xix-xx
- Chapter 1: The Precipice
- pp. 1-4
- Chapter 2: El Llano Estacado
- pp. 5-14
- Chapter 4: J. W. and Mollie Jarrott
- pp. 25-36
- Chapter 8: Trail of the Assassin
- pp. 83-126
- Chapter 9: The Man Who Hired the Assassin
- pp. 127-160
- Bibliography
- pp. 197-206
Additional Information
ISBN
9781574417067
Related ISBN(s)
9781574416954
MARC Record
OCLC
994414501
Pages
240
Launched on MUSE
2017-08-09
Language
English
Open Access
No