Jumat, 11 Mei 2018

Law and Disorder

Settlers in places where lawmen were few and far between often enforced their own rules of justice. Justice was often a matter of self-help for settlers in the Old West. Take this small mid-1880s happening out in No Man’s Land, the hardscrabble country that would later become the Oklahoma Panhandle. When local badman Bill Williams …

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