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Captain Jack Helm
Chuck Parsons
其他書名
A Victim of Texas Reconstruction Violence
出版University of North Texas Press, 2018-03-15
主題Biography & Autobiography / Law EnforcementHistory / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
ISBN15744172669781574417265
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GRhSDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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In Captain Jack Helm, Chuck Parsons explores the life of John Jackson “Jack” Helm, whose main claim to fame has been that he was a victim of man-killer John Wesley Hardin. That he was, but he was much more in his violence-filled lifetime during Reconstruction Texas. First as a deputy sheriff, then county sheriff, and finally captain of the notorious Texas State Police, he developed a reputation as a violent and ruthless man-hunter. He arrested many suspected lawbreakers, but often his prisoner was killed before reaching a jail for “attempting to escape.” This horrific tendency ultimately brought about his downfall. Helm’s aggressive enforcement of his version of “law and order” resulted in a deadly confrontation with two of his enemies in the midst of the Sutton-Taylor Feud. “Captain Jack Helm is more than a fine gunfighter biography: it is a vivid statement about the murderous violence of Reconstruction in Texas.”—Bill O’Neal, State Historian of Texas