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    The Lawkeepers: Tall Tales from the High Plains & Beyond, #2
    The LawBreakers: Tall Tales from the High Plains & Beyond, #3
    The Unexpected and Other Stories: Tall Tales from the High Plains & Beyond, #1
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    Tall Tales from the High Plains & Beyond Series

    By Tom Rizzo

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    About this series

    Most of the people who settled in the West didn’t wake up in the morning and strap on a gun. Nor did they get involved in shootouts. As in any society, the Old West had its share of bad men and women. The rate of homicides on the frontier remains a source of contention. Some historians say most towns averaged about 1.5 murders a year, not all of them shooting. Others, however, say the risk of being murdered was high. In Tall Tales from the High Plains & Beyond, Book Three: The LawBreakers, novelist Tom Rizzo takes you behind the scenes to meet some of the gunmen and back shooters who roamed the frontier trying to take what wasn’t theirs.

    • Bob Rogers who slashed the throat of a deputy constable, left him to die, and then returned to the crime scene to attack the dead man’s corpse.
    • James McIntire, a lawman turned killer who once claimed he talked with Christ.
    • Cyrus Skinner whose reign of terror ended in a town appropriately named, Hell Gate.
    • Deputy Sheriff Charley Allison who organized a gang to of outlaws to rob stagecoaches.
    • Lame Johnny, a one-time college student who graduated to a criminal career of cattle and horse rustling and robbing stagecoaches.
    • Belle Starr, wife, mistress, mother, and horse thief, who died from an assassin’s bullet.
    • Johnny-Behind-the-Deuce, a card cheat turned killer 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTom Rizzo
    Release dateJul 15, 2016
    The Lawkeepers: Tall Tales from the High Plains & Beyond, #2
    The LawBreakers: Tall Tales from the High Plains & Beyond, #3
    The Unexpected and Other Stories: Tall Tales from the High Plains & Beyond, #1

    Titles in the series (3)

    • 1

      The Unexpected and Other Stories: Tall Tales from the High Plains & Beyond, #1
      The Unexpected and Other Stories: Tall Tales from the High Plains & Beyond, #1

      The Unexpected and Other Stories: Tall Tales from the High Plains & Beyond, #1

      Tom Rizzo
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      In this first book in the series Tall Tales from the High Plains & Beyond. In Book One: The Unexplained and Other Stories, you get up-close-and-personal with characters and events involved in the expansion and development of the American frontier. These sixty-nine true stories, presented in brief, snapshot narratives, feature ghosts, unsolved mysteries, lost treasures, flimflam men, cowboys on strike, a phantom train and other sometimes bizarre events, such as: Three prospectors take shelter from a winter storm in a place they dubbed Dead Man Cave and discover human bones and shelves of gold bars. Upon returning in the spring, they’re unable to locate the entrance. The engineer of a D&RG passenger train maneuvers across the Continental Divide and spots a phantom train bearing down on him. Unable to escape, he braces for a catastrophe During a wedding reception at a fort in New Mexico Territory, the doors fling open and standing in the entrance is the apparition of a dead soldier, once the suitor of the new bride. Emerging from a strange mist on the Platte River is a ghostlike sailing ship that carries the omen of death for anyone who sees it. Hoofbeats thunder across the remote hills of south Texas and cowboys gathered around a campfire witness a large black mustang carrying a headless horseman into the night.  

      In this first book in the series Tall Tales from the High Plains & Beyond. In Book One: The Unexplained and Other Stories, you get up-close-and-personal with characters and events involved in the expansion and development of the American frontier. These sixty-nine true stories, presented in brief, snapshot narratives, feature ghosts, unsolved mysteries, lost treasures, flimflam men, cowboys on strike, a phantom train and other sometimes bizarre events, such as: Three prospectors take shelter from a winter storm in a place they dubbed Dead Man Cave and discover human bones and shelves of gold bars. Upon returning in the spring, they’re unable to locate the entrance. The engineer of a D&RG passenger train maneuvers across the Continental Divide and spots a phantom train bearing down on him. Unable to escape, he braces for a catastrophe During a wedding reception at a fort in New Mexico Territory, the doors fling open and standing in the entrance is the apparition of a dead soldier, once the suitor of the new bride. Emerging from a strange mist on the Platte River is a ghostlike sailing ship that carries the omen of death for anyone who sees it. Hoofbeats thunder across the remote hills of south Texas and cowboys gathered around a campfire witness a large black mustang carrying a headless horseman into the night.  

    • 2

      The Lawkeepers: Tall Tales from the High Plains & Beyond, #2
      The Lawkeepers: Tall Tales from the High Plains & Beyond, #2

      The Lawkeepers: Tall Tales from the High Plains & Beyond, #2

      Tom Rizzo
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      Maintaining law and order in the Old West stood as a major challenge to those who chose to wear a badge. The hours were long. The expanse of the areas under a lawman’s jurisdiction was huge. Although the responsibilities fell to the most qualified, no formal guidelines or standards were in place. In Tall Tales from the High Plains & Beyond, Book Two: The Law Keepers, novelist Tom Rizzo introduces you to a courageous, sometimes innovative, and mostly persistent cross section of those who figured out the best way to do the job on their terms. A few others walked both sides of the law. One of the Dalton brothers who didn’t break the law. He chose to enforce it. Jack Slade who lay in the dirt bleeding from six bullet wounds and two shotgun blasts, but lives to reap revenge. A rare town square showdown between Wild Bill Hickok and gambler Davis Tutt to settle a poker game argument. Tom “Bear River” Smith, the town marshal who wore no gun while patrolling the streets of Abilene, Kansas, dubbed, the Wickedest & Wildest Town in the West. Sheriff Harry Morse and his courageous one-man showdown with a feared killer and his gang. Texas Ranger Jim Gillett who risked everything by riding into a Mexican village to capture the man who killed his friend.   George Maledon, a small quiet man with dark eyes, known as the Prince of Hangmen.

      Maintaining law and order in the Old West stood as a major challenge to those who chose to wear a badge. The hours were long. The expanse of the areas under a lawman’s jurisdiction was huge. Although the responsibilities fell to the most qualified, no formal guidelines or standards were in place. In Tall Tales from the High Plains & Beyond, Book Two: The Law Keepers, novelist Tom Rizzo introduces you to a courageous, sometimes innovative, and mostly persistent cross section of those who figured out the best way to do the job on their terms. A few others walked both sides of the law. One of the Dalton brothers who didn’t break the law. He chose to enforce it. Jack Slade who lay in the dirt bleeding from six bullet wounds and two shotgun blasts, but lives to reap revenge. A rare town square showdown between Wild Bill Hickok and gambler Davis Tutt to settle a poker game argument. Tom “Bear River” Smith, the town marshal who wore no gun while patrolling the streets of Abilene, Kansas, dubbed, the Wickedest & Wildest Town in the West. Sheriff Harry Morse and his courageous one-man showdown with a feared killer and his gang. Texas Ranger Jim Gillett who risked everything by riding into a Mexican village to capture the man who killed his friend.   George Maledon, a small quiet man with dark eyes, known as the Prince of Hangmen.

    • 3

      The LawBreakers: Tall Tales from the High Plains & Beyond, #3
      The LawBreakers: Tall Tales from the High Plains & Beyond, #3

      The LawBreakers: Tall Tales from the High Plains & Beyond, #3

      Tom Rizzo
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      Most of the people who settled in the West didn’t wake up in the morning and strap on a gun. Nor did they get involved in shootouts. As in any society, the Old West had its share of bad men and women. The rate of homicides on the frontier remains a source of contention. Some historians say most towns averaged about 1.5 murders a year, not all of them shooting. Others, however, say the risk of being murdered was high. In Tall Tales from the High Plains & Beyond, Book Three: The LawBreakers, novelist Tom Rizzo takes you behind the scenes to meet some of the gunmen and back shooters who roamed the frontier trying to take what wasn’t theirs. Bob Rogers who slashed the throat of a deputy constable, left him to die, and then returned to the crime scene to attack the dead man’s corpse. James McIntire, a lawman turned killer who once claimed he talked with Christ. Cyrus Skinner whose reign of terror ended in a town appropriately named, Hell Gate. Deputy Sheriff Charley Allison who organized a gang to of outlaws to rob stagecoaches. Lame Johnny, a one-time college student who graduated to a criminal career of cattle and horse rustling and robbing stagecoaches. Belle Starr, wife, mistress, mother, and horse thief, who died from an assassin’s bullet. Johnny-Behind-the-Deuce, a card cheat turned killer 

      Most of the people who settled in the West didn’t wake up in the morning and strap on a gun. Nor did they get involved in shootouts. As in any society, the Old West had its share of bad men and women. The rate of homicides on the frontier remains a source of contention. Some historians say most towns averaged about 1.5 murders a year, not all of them shooting. Others, however, say the risk of being murdered was high. In Tall Tales from the High Plains & Beyond, Book Three: The LawBreakers, novelist Tom Rizzo takes you behind the scenes to meet some of the gunmen and back shooters who roamed the frontier trying to take what wasn’t theirs. Bob Rogers who slashed the throat of a deputy constable, left him to die, and then returned to the crime scene to attack the dead man’s corpse. James McIntire, a lawman turned killer who once claimed he talked with Christ. Cyrus Skinner whose reign of terror ended in a town appropriately named, Hell Gate. Deputy Sheriff Charley Allison who organized a gang to of outlaws to rob stagecoaches. Lame Johnny, a one-time college student who graduated to a criminal career of cattle and horse rustling and robbing stagecoaches. Belle Starr, wife, mistress, mother, and horse thief, who died from an assassin’s bullet. Johnny-Behind-the-Deuce, a card cheat turned killer 

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