Murder In Montague. Frontier Justice And Retribution In Texas

GLEN SAMPLE ELY

Publication: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020, Norman

First edition. 8vo, Stiff color wrappers, xiv, 151 pp., acknowledgments, cast of characters, illustrated, notes, bibliography, index. Story of the murder of Methodist minister William England, his wife Selena, and two of her children were brutally slaughtered in their North Texas home on an August night in 1876. Acting on Selena's deathbed testimony, a neighbor, his brother-in-law, and a friend were arrested and tried for the murders. This gruesome crime and murky aftermath present a vivid snapshot of frontier justice and retribution in Texas following the Civil War. As new, unread copy, without dust jacket, as issued.

Inventory Number: 47340