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Murder in Montague: Frontier Justice and Retribution in Texas
By Ely, Glen Sample
- ISBN
- 9780806167091
- Publisher
- Univ. of Oklahoma
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Reviewed on December 18, 2020 | Social Sciences
In Reconstruction-era Texas, violence was rampant. Vigilante groups raiding farmsteads, lynchings, attacks from and against Native Americans—rarely did a day go by where residents in northern Texas were at peace. The 1876 annihilation at the England home, in Montague, was no different—the entire family was gunned down, with Selena England living just long enough to give a deathbed identif...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
