Hangin' Times in Fort Smith : A History of Executions in Judge Parker's Court.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (292 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Beginning: The Black Cup -- Chapter 2: Two Men Hanged, Both Cherokees, for Murder -- Chapter 3: "The Awful Doom -- Chapter 4: "My Father...Brought to the Scaffold -- Chapter 5: "Eight Murderers Tried and Convicted in a U.S. Court -- Chapter 6: "The Black Cap, The Black Gown: Six Men Atone for Crime -- Chapter 7: "Doomed: Six Men Condemned to Die at One Time -- Chapter 8: Four Men Executions: "Murder Cries Aloud for Vengeance -- Chapter 9: The Gallows Gets a Two-Year Hiatus -- Chapter 10: "A Victim for the Gallows: Hanging Too Good for Him -- Chapter 11: "The Law Vindicated -- Chapter 12: "Five Trapdoor Angels Sent to that Bourne -- Chapter 13: Edward Fulsom, Hired Gun or Accidental Accomplice? -- Chapter 14: Cattle Drives, Outlaws, and a Hanging -- Chapter 15: "Three Lives for Six -- Chapter 16: Three Down, Three to Go -- Chapter 17: Execution of William Phillips -- Chapter 18: James Arcine and William Parchmeal -- Chapter 19: A New Gallows for New Customers -- Chapter 20: Sprole and James Hanged -- Chapter 21: Kitt Ross Executed -- Chapter 22: Lust, Revenge, and Bad Tempers Send Four to Gallows -- Chapter 23: Pat McCarty's Respite Expires, And With It, Patrik McCarty -- Chapter 24: The Executions of Seaborn Kalijah and Silas Hampton -- Chapter 25: Seven Sentenced, Three Hang -- Chapter 26: Gus Bogle -- Chapter 27: His Boots Were His Downfall -- Chapter 28: Three Senseless Murders, Two Hangings -- Chapter 29: "Broke Their Necks: That's What Hangman Maledon Did -- Chapter 30: "Gallows Fruit -- Chapter 31: "Murdered the Fiddler -- Chapter 32: "John Stansberry Hanged for the Murder of His Wife -- Chapter 33: Boudinot Crumpton, a.k.a. Bood Burris -- Chapter 34: Shepard Busby Hangs for the Murder of Deputy Connelly. Chapter 35: "Bowing and Smiling, John Thorton Marches Forth -- Chapter 36: "Lewis Holder, The Slayer of George M. Bickford -- Chapter 37: The Execution of John Pointer -- Chapter 38: The Execution of Crawford Goldsby, a.k.a. Cherokee Bill -- Chapter 39: Webber Isaacs, Mollie King, Berry Foreman, and George and John Pierce -- Chapter 40: The Buck Gang: Ten-Day Terrors -- Chapter 41: The Last Man to Go: James Calvin Casherego -- Epilogue: The End of an Era -- References -- Index.