Hell on the Range
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Hell on the Range

A Story of Honor, Conscience, and the American West

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Hell on the Range

A Story of Honor, Conscience, and the American West

About this book

In this lively account of Arizona’s Rim Country War of the 1880s - what others have called "The Pleasant Valley War" - historian Daniel Justin Herman explores a web of conflict involving Mormons, Texas cowboys, New Mexican sheepherders, Jewish merchants, and mixed-blood ranchers. Their story, contends Herman, offers a fresh perspective on Western violence, Western identity, and American cultural history.

At the heart of Arizona's range war, argues Herman, was a conflict between cowboys’ code of honor and Mormons' code of conscience. He investigates the sources of these attitudes, tracks them into the early twentieth century, and offers rich insights into the roots of American violence and peace.

Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Map of Arizona’s Rim Country and Surrounding Geography, 1887
  3. Introduction
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Part 1. Beginnings
  6. 1. Home on the Range
  7. 2. The Saints March in
  8. 3. The Honor of Ruin
  9. Part 2. War
  10. 4. The Trials of the Saints
  11. 5. Cowboys and Criminals
  12. 6. Hell on the Range
  13. 7. The Honor of Vengeance
  14. 8. Killing Conscience
  15. 9. Understanding
  16. Part 3. Legacy
  17. 10. Water on the Fires
  18. 11. Courting Conscience
  19. 12. Honor Anew
  20. Conclusion
  21. List of Abbreviations
  22. Notes
  23. Index