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(1925)
300, offers a handy guide to Hardin's claimed killings, although the author's "Total 42 men killed" overstates the number by one. 67 "Fifty Years a Policeman -
His autobiography admits responsibility, with a kind of self-satisfied detachment, for between thirty-four and fortyone victims. (The separation of dead and wounded is occasionally ambiguous -
A. Klein (2006)
“The Horse Doesn’t Get a Credit”: The Foregrounding of Generic Syntax in Deadwood’s Opening Credits -
(1974)
They Called Him Wild Bill: The Ufe and Adventures of -
The same goes for seven criminal homicides in which he probably collaborated: three Mexican cowboys, Jack Helm, Charles Webb, and two Pinkerton Detective Agency stringers. See Metz -
In any event, it's clear that historians of the West can never hope to resolve the Violent/Not Especially Violent problematic until there is some consensus about judging the statistics
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Copyright
- © 2009, Western History Association
- ISSN
- 0043-3810
- eISSN
- 1939-8603
- DOI
- 10.1093/whq/40.3.321
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Was frontier violence as pervasive as traditionally depicted? Historians are divided. Although FBI-type homicide rates support the high-violence school, a “small-numbers fallacy” continues to bedevil proponents. Consolidating venues offers promise, confidence intervals do not. Some scholarly consensus might help wrest the portrayal of western lethality from those with much imagination but limited grounding in history.
Journal
Western Historical Quarterly – Oxford University Press
Published: Aug 1, 2009