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Hardcover; Near Fine; Dust Jacket - Very Good; 278 pp., frontis, index, sources. A tight, unmarked near fine copy in a very good clipped dust jacket as photographed. A well written and research volume about Isaac C. Parker the "hanging judge" and Ft. Smith, Arkansas. Six-Guns #522, Adams 150 #38.
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Violence dictated the daily rhythms of Cole Younger’s life. During the Civil War he was selected to join Quantrill’s Raiders because he owned his own revolver. His participation in the brutal 1863 raid on Lawrence, Kansas, drove him and other guerrillas into hiding as Union troops sought to punish the perpetrators of atrocities including the murder of women and children. Younger met up with Jesse James in 1866. The James and Younger families cooperated in a series of bank and train robberies over the next decade that led to a feeling of invincibility. That feeling came to an end in Northfield, Minnesota, when local citizens killed two of the gang and wounded most of the others. Cole and his younger brothers were captured, tried, and sentenced to life in the Minnesota State Penitentiary. But even a life sentence could not keep Younger in prison. Despite a career that included thirty wounds, battles with Pinkerton detectives and Yankees, an affair with outlaw Belle Starr, and a near-fatal confrontation with Jesse James, Cole Younger survived to become a living legend in his home state of Missouri. He died peacefully, a free man.
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If ever a tale of the pioneer west was unfolded "whose lightest word could make each particular hair stand on end," this is it. 87 people set out for the promised land of California--only 44 survived to reach their goal after a year of incredible hardship and suffering. Homer Croy heard this story many times from his parents, who were pioneers, too. He combed diaries, newspapers and documents, and interviewed descendents of the survivors. Finally he traveled over every mile of the trail of the Donner Party himself. 242 pages including index. 8" tall x 5 1/2" wide.
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Homer Croy was born on March 11, 1883 in Maryville, Missouri, United States. He was the son of Amos J. Croy, a farmer, and Susan Sewell. His parents had come to Missouri from Indiana in a covered wagon after the Civil War. Croy began to do farm chores at an early age; and although he later traveled widely, mentally he never left the rural world of his youth. And, like so many farm boys, he learned to hate hard physical labor.
He studied at Maryville High School. Enrolling at the University of Missouri in 1901, Croy earned his way by writing and editing. Later he claimed to have been "the first student in the first school of journalism. " He did not graduate because he failed a senior course in English (in 1954 his alma mater awarded him an honorary LL. D. degree).
Croy studied a pocket dictionary, memorizing words and learning to use them. At fourteen he sold an article to Puck, astonishing his father when he produced a check for eight dollars.
He continued to sell articles to farm journals. For a time he was employed by the Maryville Tribune (1900 - 1901) at a salary of $3 per week.
Croy worked briefly for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1907, after which he moved to New York City. There he was hired by Butterick Publications to assist Theodore Dreiser, who then was editing three magazines.
In 1914, Croy was assigned to travel around the world, writing magazine articles for Butterick Publications, and he persuaded Universal Film Company to send a cameraman with him to make travelogues. The outbreak of World War I stranded him in Calcutta.
Croy's world trip led in 1918 to the publication of his first book, How Motion Pictures Are Made, by Harper. The same publishing house also brought out Croy's first novel, Boone Stop (1918). Like most of his novels, it was set in small-town Missouri. Several other books followed, but it was West of the Water Tower (1923) that brought him to national attention. Because the reviewers had not been extremely kind to his earlier books, this work was issued anonymously. Ironically, it won critical acclaim. There followed a highly productive and lucrative period.
In addition he published an autobiography, Country Cured (1943), and a volume of reminiscences, Wonderful Neighbor (1945). Late in his career Croy began writing serious nonfiction: Jesse James Was My Neighbor (1949), He Hanged Them High (1952), Our Will Rogers (1953), Wheels West (1955), Trigger Marshal (1957), and Star Maker: The Story of D. W. Griffith (1959).
The critics rarely were kind to Croy, seeing him only as a writer of rural and small-town midwestern humor stories. But underneath the surface in these books were a directness and strength that they mistook for crudity. Croy liked to write letters on the back of letters he had received from others, and these he signed "Two Gun Croy, the Law North of 125th Street" or "Homer Croy, Enemy of Sin and Dutch Elm Disease. "
He died in New York City.
Croy became a bread-and-butter writer for the Saturday Evening Post while turning out almost a book a year for the next two decades. Among his better-known novels were They Had to See Paris (1926), which subsequently became the basis of Will Rogers' first talking picture (later he wrote the scripts for several of Rogers's movies); Sixteen Hands (1938), made into the motion picture I'm from Missouri; Family Honeymoon (1941), turned into a stage play and a movie; and The Lady from Colorado (1957), converted into an opera in 1964.
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He married Mae Belle Savell on February 7, 1915. They had three children.
