Badge and Buckshot: Lawlessness in Old California

by John Boessenecke and John Boessenecker

Book Overview

Badge and Buckshot is a comprehensive book at many of the once-famous peace officers and outlaws of Old California. Told here for the first time are the true stories of Ben Thorn, the iron-willed but scandal-plagued sheriff of Calaveras County; John C. Boggs, the fast-shooting nemesis of the Tom Bell and Rattlesnake Dick gangs; Ben and Dudley Johnson, the notorious "Tulare Twins"; Kid Thompson, whose train-robbing exploits took place just blocks from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806125101
• ISBN13: 9780806125107
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.6"