Norman's Natchez: An Early Photographer and His Town by Gandy, Joan W. , and Thomas H. Gandy - 1978

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1978. Hardcover. Good DJ, VG book (Ex art library with sticker on DJ spine and rear pastedown, and minimal markings; DJ is edgeworn/scuffed/smudged/sunned; boards are lightly smudged at the edges; interior is very clean with light toning at the periphery; binding is solid.). Brown and b&w photo illustrated DJ with white lettering; off-white and brown boards with gilt lettering; 223 pp.; richly illustrated. For twenty-one years, from 1875 to 1896, Isaac C. Parker, Judge of the U.S. Court of the Western District of Arkansas, was the law west of Fort Smith, holding exclusive jurisdiction over 74,000 square miles and 60,000 people in Arkansas and Indian Territory. In this colorful yet carefully researched account of the "Hanging Judge, " Glenn Shirley also traces the careers of such famous criminals as the Daltons, Belle Starr, the Buck gang, and Cole Younger; records the processes of the court; and tells how the district's 200 deputy marshals worked against… Read More