| Record ID | marc_loc_updates/v36.i12.records.utf8:8663974:1613 |
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001 2007033161
003 DLC
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008 070810s2008 nmuab b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780826343796 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a0826343791 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn165082675
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050 00 $aHV8699.U6$bT67 2008
082 00 $a364.6609789/09034$222
100 1 $aTórrez, Robert J.
245 10 $aMyth of the hanging tree :$bstories of crime and punishment in territorial New Mexico /$cRobert J. Tórrez.
260 $aAlbuquerque :$bUniversity of New Mexico Press,$c2008.
300 $ax, 186 p. :$bill., map ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 163-179) and index.
505 0 $aMyth of the hanging tree -- Legal hangings and capital punishment in New Mexico -- Two of history's forgotten desperados -- Murder, politics, and justice in frontier New Mexico : the framing of Perfecto Padilla -- The man who was hanged twice -- Witness to a hanging -- Shoot-out at Gallegos Canyon -- Judicial gems : the art of judicial sentences in territorial New Mexico -- "Young, ignorant, and immoral" : murder by poison at Hillsboro, New Mexico -- Paula Angel : a search for the "only woman ever hanged in New Mexico" -- The old penitentiary : New Mexico's "first new public building".
650 0 $aCapital punishment$zNew Mexico$xHistory.
650 0 $aHanging$zNew Mexico$xHistory.
651 0 $aNew Mexico$xSocial conditions.