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Notorious Jefferson County: Frontier Murder and Mayhem

Notorious Jefferson County: Frontier Murder and Mayhem

by Carol Turner
Notorious Jefferson County: Frontier Murder and Mayhem

Notorious Jefferson County: Frontier Murder and Mayhem

by Carol Turner

Overview

Before the Colorado Territory, this land was Jefferson Territory. Made up mostly of ranching and farming communities, early Jefferson County was the kind of place where only the stouthearted and downright crazy could survive. And with any settlement comes violence. It's true that Hollywood has embellished the history of the Wild West, but that doesn't mean it wasn't truly wild. From the "psychic" Italian mother who lured an elderly woman to her death to the violent end of the McQueary-Shaffer feud in the upper Platte region, local historian Carol Turner's Notorious Jefferson County offers readers a peek into some of the area's most famous and infamous murder cases of the frontier era.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781596299542
Publisher: History Press, The
Publication date: 10/12/2010
Series: Murder & Mayhem
Pages: 128
Sales rank: 1,093,716
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Carol Turner has a BA in English from Sonoma State University and an MFA in creative writing and literature from Bennington College. She is the author of Economics for the Impatient, and her short fiction has appeared in numerous literary magazines. She lives in Colorado, writes a history column for the Broomfield Enterprise and maintains a Colorado history blog.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 9

Introduction 11

The Case of the Lovelorn Prodigy (1919) 13

Hellion in the High Country (1899 and 1915) 19

How Deadman Gulch Got its Name (1871-72) 26

The Orchitic Strangulator (1893) 29

Love Triangle at Sherie's Ranch (1923) 33

The Mystery of the Winter Camper (1921) 42

Murder on Table Mountain (1910) 48

Mr. Bellew Runs Amuck (1912) 57

A Most Tragic Corner of the County (1866-1914) 61

A Muddled Case of Frontier Justice (1868) 66

The McQueary-Shaffer Feud (1907) 72

Murder of the Judge's Son (1916) 75

The Headless Skeleton (1924) 80

A Divorce Most Foul (1883) 82

A Clash over Cucumbers (1881) 90

The Missing Wagonmaster (1879) 92

The Peculiar Case of Mary Cobb (1910) 99

A Horse with Only One Shoe (1884) 102

The Mystery of the Crescent Postmaster (1918) 106

A Bully Gets His Due (1918) 112

The Voices Made Him Do It (1920) 115

Notes 121

Bibliography 125

About the Author 127

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