Gunsmoke In The Redlands.

JOSEPH F. COMBS

Publication: The Naylor Company, 1968, San Antonio

First edition. 8vo. Inscribed on the title page by the author "To ---- With Best Wishes, Joseph F. Combs." Cloth, plat of San Augustine, Texas on front endpapers, map of Texas and plan on rear endpapers, xii [4], 121 [1] pp., preface, acknowledgments, illustrated, plates, portraits.

Details the Wall-Border feud that lasted for ten years in the thickly forested section of east Texas. The book chronicles a series of post-Civil War blood feuds, where local families and citizens routinely bypassed the legal system to settle matters of personal honor with firearms. This feud was essentially a reign of terror and was conducted by the local citizens, rather than by a lawless group of outlaws. Six Guns 474 says "A story about the Wall-Border feud of east Texas." Also the Conner Feud in Sabine county from 1883 to 1887.

Fine bright copy in a bright and fresh dust jacket.