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2??8Book Reviews81 make despite having received (on January 30, 1886) a tiireatening message: Unless proceedings were dropped against a number of men indicted for cattle rustling, he (Fountain) would never reach home alive. As Recko clearly lays out, Fountain had been at Lincoln where he helped to bring thirty-two indictments against twenty-three men, two of whom (William McNew and Oliver Lee) figured prominendy in the mystery of Fountain's disappearance. On February 1, 1886, Fountain and his son left Lincoln for Mesilla but disappeared near White Sands. Search parties managed to locate Fountain's buckboard and a trail but no bodies. The bulk of Murder on the White Sands examines the investigation into the Fountains' disappearance by Pat Garrett and John Fraser, Pinkerton National Detective Agency operatives. In total, thirty-nine individuals were named as possible suspects or conspirators, with Lee, Gililland, McNew, and Fall leading die list. Recko's narrative is weakened primarily because it relies on newspaper accounts to piece together the trial due to the loss of trial transcripts. Recko saves the best for last, summarizing what he believes was each individual's involvement in the disappearance. The author concludes that while Fall's alibi held up, he might have been
Southwestern Historical Quarterly – Texas State Historical Association
Published: Jul 6, 2008
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