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North Texas crime and criminal justice volume no. 1
Publisher
University of North Texas Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Author
Series
North Texas crime and criminal justice volume no. 2
Publisher
University of North Texas Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Crime and criminal justice volume no. 3
Publisher
University of North Texas Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Author
Series
North Texas crime and criminal justice volume no. 4
Publisher
University of North Texas Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Author
Series
North Texas crime and criminal justice volume no. 5
Publisher
University of North Texas Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Author
Series
North Texas crime and criminal justice volume no. 7
Publisher
University of North Texas Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Author
Series
North Texas crime and criminal justice volume no. 6
Publisher
University of North Texas Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Author
Series
North Texas crime and criminal justice volume no. 10
Publisher
University of North Texas Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Convict Cowboys is the first book on the nation's first prison rodeo, which ran from 1931 to 1986. At its apogee the Texas Prison Rodeo drew 30,000 spectators on October Sundays. Mitchel P. Roth portrays the Texas Prison Rodeo against a backdrop of Texas history, covering the history of rodeo, the prison system, and convict leasing, as well as important figures in Texas penology including Marshall Lee Simmons, O.B. Ellis, and George J. Beto, and the...