Why Horse Theft Was Punished So Severely in Texas (1865-1890)
Horse theft in Texas between the end of the Civil War and 1890 was considered one of the most serious crimes on the frontier. The severity of punishment stemmed from both the practical importance of horses in frontier life and the inadequate formal law enforcement...In A Murderous Rage
An anonymous cowboy on a horse in Custer County, Nebraska, circa 1870-1880. When I was doing genealogy on my family, I found that Joseph Price Akridge, my grandmother’s uncle, was said to have ridden from Blue Ridge, Texas, near McKinney, to Chattooga County, Georgia,...
