Shot Down! Capital Crimes of Casper, Wyoming
Charlotte Babcock
Read about Casper’s wild, sometimes lurid, frontier days: the hanging, the beautiful and bad dance hall queen, the adulteries, murders, crimes of passion, a lynching, barroom brawls—they exploded with the birth of the new town of Casper, Wyoming.
Meet the colorful characters and criminal elements from Casper’s past. Notorious dance hall owner Lou Polk; Black Dogae Lee, Polk’s partner in business and pleasure who cut off her nose and then vanished without a trace; Marshall Bill Hodge, who shot an unarmed cowboy; Dr. Joseph Benton, who tried to perform a postmortem on a still living patient and later died in a jailhouse fire set by his own hand; Joel Hurt, a Casper businessman who was acquitted after murdering young Billy Milne for having an affair with his wife; George Edwards who killed two men in unrelated incidents to protect his wife’s virtue; and more.
"Sensational in their own right, these events have been thoroughly
researched by the author and are accurately reported insofar as the available
facts allow..watch those events unfold before your eyes as you read this wonderful
book. It will be a load of fun."
•• Kevin S. Anderson, Casper College Library
• 0-931271-52-5 • trade paper • index • bibliography • 160
pp • photos • $13.95
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