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"The story of the five Marlow brothers and their tribulations in late nineteenth-century Texas is the stuff of Old West legend (and served to inspire the John Wayne movie, The Sons of Katie Elder). Violent, full of intrigue, with characters of amazing heroism and deplorable cowardice, their story was first related by William Rathmell in Life of the Marlows, a little book published in 1892, shortly after the events it described in Young County, Texas." "It told how Boone, the most reckless of the brothers, shot and killed a popular sheriff and escaped, only to be murdered later by bounty hunters. The other four brothers, arrested as accessories and jailed, made a daring break from confinement but were recaptured. Once back in their cells, they were forced to fight off a mob intent on lynching them. Later, shackled together, the Marlows were placed on wagons by officers late at night, bound for another town, but they were ambushed by angry citizens. In the resulting battle two of the brothers were shot and killed, the other two severely wounded, and three mob members died. The surviving brothers eventually were exonerated, but members of the mob that had attacked them were prosecuted in cases that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court."--BOOK JACKET.
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Frontier and pioneer life, History, Murder, Murder, texas, Frontier and pioneer life, texas, Texas, historyPeople
Marlow familyPlaces
Texas, Young County, Young County (Tex.)Times
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Life of the Marlows: a true story of frontier life of early days
2004, University of North Texas Press
in English
1574411799 9781574411799
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Life of the Marlows: a true story of frontier life of early days : as related by themselves
1920, Ouray Herald Print, W.S. Olexa
in English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-193) and index.
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