Nighthawk Rising : A Biography of Accused Cattle Rustler Queen Ann Bassett of Brown's Park Cover Image

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Nighthawk Rising : A Biography of Accused Cattle Rustler Queen Ann Bassett of Brown's Park / Diana Allen Kouris.

Summary:

Author Diana Allen Kouris, a native of Brown's Park, utilized her personal and family connections, along with years of research, to meticulously and extensively record the fascinating life events of Ann Bassett. Kouris includes never-before-published photographs. Ann Bassett was known as the Queen of the Cattle Rustlers, although she was never convicted. Queen Ann, as she was called, lived a life full of adventure and controversy in the Brown s Park region of Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah. She broke bread with Butch Cassidy, had her life turned upside down by notorious range detective Tom Horn, and stood tall against cattle baron Ora Haley. Anyone with an interest in Western History will want this comprehensive book!

Record details

ISBN: 9781937147150
ISBN: 1937147150
ISBN: 9781937147167
ISBN: 1937147169
Physical Description: xii, 414 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Publisher: Glendo, Wyoming : High Plains Press, [2018]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-403) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The welcoming -- Since times primeval -- A frightful fate -- The aftermath -- The Bassett ranch -- Buckskin and the judge -- The orphan -- In the company of outlaws -- Of branding irons -- The grizzly -- Farewell, splendid matriarch -- A rebellious nature -- The outlaw's wife -- To prevent trouble -- Hunting grounds -- The lynching -- Queen Ann -- The tempest -- Becoming a legend -- An unsavory den -- Glendolene, Etta and Ann -- The two-bar foreman -- In sheets of ice -- Queen of the cattle rustlers -- Every cedar a symphony -- Eb -- The evanescence.