You are Respectfully Invited to Attend My Execution: Untold Stories of Men Legally Executed in Wyoming Territory
- ISBN-10
- 0931271428
- ISBN-13
- 9780931271427
- Pages
- 187
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- High Plains Press
- Author
- Larry K. Brown
Description
Badmen on the Wyoming frontier? Many were lynched, but seven were legally hanged. You are respectfully invited to attend the executions.Badmen thrived in Wyoming Territory, but law and legal processes also existed. The frontier was so "civilized" that those men sentenced to hang were allowed to issue formal invitations to their executions.Read of the true stories of the crimes, lawmen, capture, investigations, escapes, trials, and deaths of the seven men legally hanged in Wyoming Territory, in this the second of Brown's trilogy on frontier crime. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
