Frontier Justice: The Rise and Fall of the Loomis Gang

by E. Fuller Torrey MD, author of American Ps

Overview

A definitive history of the Loomis Gang who terrorized central New York in the 1800's. Well-educated and from aristocratic New England families, George and Rhoda Loomis raised their children to be outlaws. Robbery, horse thieving, bribery, arson, counterfeiting, kidnapping, rape and murder-the Loomis Gang did it all until they were brought down by Constable Jim Filkins and United States Senator Roscoe Conkling.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780932052919
Publisher:	Globe Pequot
Publication date:	05/01/1992
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.01(w) x 8.99(h) x 0.84(d)

About the Author

E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., is a research psychiatrist specializing in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. He is the executive director of the Stanley Medical Research Institute, the founder of the Treatment Advocacy Center, a professor of psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and the author of twenty books. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.