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They Called Him Buckskin Frank : The Life and Adventures of Nashville Franklyn Leslie / by Jack DeMattos and Chuck Parsons.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeMattos, Jack, 1944- author.
- Parsons, Chuck, author.
- Series:
- A.C. Greene series ; no. 19.
- Number 19 in the A.C. Greene series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leslie, Frank, 1842-.
- Leslie, Frank.
- Outlaws--Arizona--Tombstone--Biography.
- Outlaws.
- Tombstone (Ariz.)--Biography.
- Tombstone (Ariz.).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- Nashville Franklyn "Buckskin Frank" Leslie was a man of mystery during his lifetime. His reputation has rested on two gunfights--both in storied Tombstone, Arizona--but he was much more than a deadly gunfighter. Jack DeMattos and Chuck Parsons have combined their research efforts to help solve the questions of where Leslie came from and how he died. Leslie developed a reputation as a man to be left alone. Such notables as the Earps, Doc Holliday, and John Ringo wisely avoided confrontations with him. Leslie was a "lady killer" both figuratively and--in one celebrated incident--literally. Beyond his gunfighting legacy, DeMattos and Parsons also explore Leslie's scouting with General Crook on the Great Plains and his alleged service as a deputy for Wild Bill Hickok in Abilene, Kansas.
- Contents:
- Foreword / by John Boessenecker
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- The birth of Buckskin Frank Leslie
- Buckskin Frank enters frontier history
- The killing of Mike Killeen
- 1881 -Tombstone's crowded year
- Leslie the "Masher"
- The death of John Ringo
- The killing of Billy Claiborne
- The Magnolia Ranch
- Government scout in the Apache campaign
- Lady killer
- Convict no. 632 at Yuma
- Marriage to Belle Stowell
- Fort Worth, Cuba, and Mexico
- San Francisco and the Bay Area
- Marriage to Elnora Torbert Cast
- The death of Buckskin Frank Leslie
- Epilogue
- Appendix A: Tombstone Weekly Epitaph, Saturday, November 18, 1882
- Appendix B: San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday, December 2, 1893
- Appendix C: San Francisco Call, Sunday, January 7, 1900.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-57441-720-7
- OCLC:
- 1041804576
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