Under Cover for Wells Fargo: The Unvarnished Recollections of Fred DodgeUniversity of Oklahoma Press, 31 dec. 1998 - 336 pagini These are the remarkable memoirs of Fred Dodge (1854-1938), Wells Fargo secret agent for fifty years, friend of Wyatt Earp, and fast man with a gun. Here are dozens of his cases--stage robberies, train holdups, long pursuits through the badlands, even suits against Wells Fargo for "delay to a corpse" and the bite of a vicious horse. In Under Cover for Wells Fargo his "unvarnished recollections" are preserved and carefully edited by Carolyn Lake, who discovered Dodge’s journals among Stuart N. Lake’s papers, awaiting a biography that was never written. Fred Dodge was a dead ringer for Morgan Earp, and this led to his early acquaintance with the famous brothers. In those days Dodge was posing as a gambler, and even Wyatt did not know that he was a Wells Fargo agent. Dodge sheds much light on the Earps in Tombstone and on how he teamed up with Heck Thomas to hunt down outlaws in Kansas and Oklahoma, including Bill Doolin’s gang and the Dalton brothers. |
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Childhood Among Miners and Indians of the Sierra Nevada | 3 |
Wells Fargo Tombstone and Wyatt Earp | 7 |
Fights and Faro Games | 21 |
Smoke from the Town the Polls and the O K Corral | 34 |
Trailing in the Chaparral | 51 |
The Target of a Moonlight Murder Plot | 56 |
Territory of Arizona vs Barney Riggs | 68 |
Bandits and Biscuits | 78 |
Out from Under Cover as Special Officer 18901895 | 109 |
Resignation Refused | 111 |
The Daltons Indians and Whistlers Mother | 123 |
Of a Biting Horse a Careless Agent and a SelfStyled Detective | 143 |
The Dalton Gang Dead or Alive | 159 |
Train Robberies Coleman Y Cimarron St James | 178 |
35000 Brown Paper Case 111 123 143 159 178 | 198 |
Something of the Personal | 222 |
Ice War on the Desert 3 | 95 |
7 | 97 |
21 | 108 |
45 | 108 |
Letters in Retrospect | 227 |
Fred Dodge Recollects | 229 |
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Under Cover for Wells Fargo: The Unvarnished Recollections of Fred Dodge Fred Dodge Vizualizare fragmente - 1969 |
Under Cover for Wells Fargo: The Unvarnished Recollections of Fred Dodge Fred Dodge Vizualizare fragmente - 1969 |
Under Cover for Wells Fargo: The Unvarnished Recollections of Fred Dodge Fred Dodge,Carolyn Lake Nu există previzualizare disponibilă - 1969 |