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ISBN: 9781589760400 | 1589760409
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 8/1/2001

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General Cook was the founder of the Rocky Mountain Detective Association. His story focuses on the criminal history of the west.

Publisher's Preface	p. 1
The Italian Murders	p. 3
General Cook Takes the Case in Hand	p. 3
Pursuit by the Detective Association	p. 10
The Murderers Run Down at Last	p. 15
The Murderers Tell the Story of the Crime	p. 21
The Trials of the Italians	p. 26
Musgrove and His Gang	p. 28
Bad Characters in Denver	p. 28
Pursuit of the Highwaymen	p. 36
Lynching of Musgrove	p. 44
The Last of the Musgrove Gang	p. 49
The Exchange Bank Robbery	p. 53
General Cook Secures Thieves and Booty	p. 53
The Hayward Murder	p. 60
A Great Crime and Profound Mystery	p. 60
Chasing the Hayward Murderers	p. 67
Seminole's Confession and Woodruff's Capture	p. 71
Christmas Celebrated by a Hanging	p. 79
Dunkard Disgraced	p. 90
Iowa Amish Society Leader Disappears	p. 90
A Case of Confidence, Theft, and Bigamy	p. 93
The Wall Murder Mystery	p. 98
A Foul Murder on Dry Creek	p. 98
The Capture of the Criminals	p. 104
The Story the Criminals Told	p. 111
Bogus Detective's Fate	p. 121
A Cold-Blooded Assassination	p. 121
Arrest and Death of Griswold	p. 127
Leichsenring Robbery	p. 137
The Thief Locked Up and Money Returned	p. 137
Deal with the Black Hills Road Agents	p. 141
The Lively Times of '76	p. 141
The Fate of Members of the Gang	p. 144
Denver's Last Legal Hanging	p. 151
Theodore Meyers and the Tragedy of 1871-3	p. 151
A Confession in the Denver Jail	p. 157
Meyers' Trial and Execution	p. 161
A Half-Million-Dollar Robber	p. 169
Robbery in Petroleum Centre, Pennsylvania	p. 169
Bennehoff Refuses to Give Reward and Saeger Escapes	p. 172
A Utah Murderer's Capture	p. 178
Pursuit of the Criminals	p. 178
Confession and Trial of the Murderer	p. 182
A Tale of Two Continents	p. 188
A San Juan Fiddler in the Role of Romeo	p. 188
Two of a Kind	p. 195
General Cook on the Trail	p. 195
A Short but Thrilling Chapter	p. 197
Hanged in a Hog-Pen	p. 200
Murder of Henry Thedie	p. 200
The Lynching Done Up in Rhyme	p. 203
Tussle with the Habeas Corpus	p. 206
Charles H. Faulk Jailed	p. 206
The Detectives Outwit Habeas Corpus	p. 211
A Desperate Railroad Contractor	p. 216
A Tragedy on the Union Pacific	p. 216
Detective Boswell Lands His Prisoner in Laramie City	p. 221
Victim of Draw Poker	p. 227
An Express Messenger Robs and Is Robbed	p. 227
Horse-Thief's Folly	p. 238
John Doen Steals a Horse	p. 238
Pueblo Vengeance	p. 242
Bill White and "Handsome" Larnigan Arrive	p. 242
A Warning to Thieves	p. 246
The Retribution of Fate	p. 251
The Murder of "Cheap John" in Denver	p. 251
Townful of Thieves	p. 258
Wholesale Thieving from the Kansas Pacific	p. 258
Ragsdale Gates	p. 265
A Good Job by Detective Wise	p. 265
Taken By Surprise	p. 269
A Little Strategy and a Big Capture	p. 269
A Race for Life	p. 273
The Story of Clodfelter and Johnson	p. 273
Tracking the Criminals under Difficulties	p. 277
The Desperate Fugitives Return to Denver	p. 281
A Dream of Death	p. 291
A Startling Dream Which Proved True	p. 291
A Desperate Deed with Terrible Results	p. 295
Conclusion	p. 299
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