Hands Up

Or, Thirty-Five Years of Detective Life in the Mountains and on the Plains

Nonfiction, History, Americas, Canada, Biography & Memoir
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Author: John W. Cook ISBN: 1230000157438
Publisher: VolumesOfValue Publication: August 3, 2013
Imprint: Language: English
Author: John W. Cook
ISBN: 1230000157438
Publisher: VolumesOfValue
Publication: August 3, 2013
Imprint:
Language: English

HANDS UP;
OR,
THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF DETECTIVE LIFE IN THE
MOUNTAINS AND ON THE PLAINS.
Reminiscences by General D. J. Cook, Chief of the Rocky
Mountain Detective Association.
Compiled by John W. Cook.
A Condensed Criminal History of the Far West.

This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked List of Illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents

CONTENTS
A Hidden Treasure
Capture of the Allison Gang
A Cowboy’s Sad Fate
Denver’s Last Legal Hanging
The Italian Murderers
Musgrove and His Gang
The Exchange Bank Robbery
The Hayward Murder
A Dunkard Disgraced
The Wall Murder Mystery
Slick Scoundrel
A Bogus Detective’s Fate
The Leichsenring Robbery
A Deal with the Black Hills Road Agents
In the Express Business
A Farm Hand’s Awful Crime
A Half-Million-Dollar Robber
A Utah Murderer’s Capture
A Tale of Two Continents
Two of a Kind
Hanged in a Hog Pen
A Tussle with the Habeas Corpus
A Desperate Railroad Contractor
Dealing with Strikers
A Victim of Draw Poker
A Horse Thief’s Folly
Pueblo Vengence
The Retribution of Fate
A Townful of Thieves
Ragsdale Gates
Taken by Surprise
A Race for Life
A Dream of Death
A Mexican Bandit
Conclusion

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HANDS UP;
OR,
THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF DETECTIVE LIFE IN THE
MOUNTAINS AND ON THE PLAINS.
Reminiscences by General D. J. Cook, Chief of the Rocky
Mountain Detective Association.
Compiled by John W. Cook.
A Condensed Criminal History of the Far West.

This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked List of Illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents

CONTENTS
A Hidden Treasure
Capture of the Allison Gang
A Cowboy’s Sad Fate
Denver’s Last Legal Hanging
The Italian Murderers
Musgrove and His Gang
The Exchange Bank Robbery
The Hayward Murder
A Dunkard Disgraced
The Wall Murder Mystery
Slick Scoundrel
A Bogus Detective’s Fate
The Leichsenring Robbery
A Deal with the Black Hills Road Agents
In the Express Business
A Farm Hand’s Awful Crime
A Half-Million-Dollar Robber
A Utah Murderer’s Capture
A Tale of Two Continents
Two of a Kind
Hanged in a Hog Pen
A Tussle with the Habeas Corpus
A Desperate Railroad Contractor
Dealing with Strikers
A Victim of Draw Poker
A Horse Thief’s Folly
Pueblo Vengence
The Retribution of Fate
A Townful of Thieves
Ragsdale Gates
Taken by Surprise
A Race for Life
A Dream of Death
A Mexican Bandit
Conclusion

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