Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Preview

£0.00 for first 30 days

Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

A Horse, a Gunfight, and the Law

By: James Wesley Johnson, James William Johnson
Narrated by: James Wesley Johnson
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £14.99

Buy Now for £14.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Summary

The contemporary lore surrounding the 1879 Alford-White affray--that occurred in Tarrant County, Texas--has celebrated George H. White as a forgotten Fort Worth peace officer killed in the line of duty by horse thieves and desperados. This sensationalized narrative, based on the yellow journalism of the day, has been glamorized in books, has been written about in magazine articles, and has been honored on national and local memorials. Nevertheless, 20 years of research has revealed a different insight. This evidence-based examination relied on primary sources such as court records and documented statutes, instead of the often one-sided, secondary sources found in the newspapers of the time. This investigation divulged the history of each personality involved. Further analysis has uncovered a clear understanding of the laws of the Lone Star State, and the social and political turmoil resulting from an ex-confederate state enduring northern reconstruction. This account presents the listener with an altogether new narrative utilizing an evidential based process.

Were the Alfords horse thieves and murderers? Did they deserve the labels of desperados or ex-convicts? Was George White a duly-sworn peace officer? How did the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals rule on this case and why? Was it's ruling based on technicalities or was it a precedent-setting decision? Were the Alfords the black hat, wild west, bad guys as portrayed by the newspapers, or were they northern victims of defeated ex-confederates?

The authors state that "this historical account attempts to answer these and other questions about our Alfords in Texas".

©2019 James Wesley Johnson (P)2022 James Wesley Johnson
  • Unabridged Audiobook
  • Categories: History
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

Listeners also enjoyed...

The McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona cover art
The Hatfields and the McCoys cover art
John Adams Under Fire cover art
Bad Mexicans cover art
Legal Systems Very Different from Ours cover art
The Last Lynching cover art
Billy the Kid: An Autobiography cover art
Goat Castle cover art
Major Thomas cover art
Outlaws of the Wild West cover art
On the Courthouse Lawn cover art
Bigamy and Bloodshed cover art
The Child in the Electric Chair cover art
Remembering Ella: A 1912 Murder and Mystery in the Arkansas Ozarks cover art
Tulsa 1921 cover art
Slavery by Another Name cover art

What listeners say about A Horse, a Gunfight, and the Law

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.