Death on the Lonely Llano Estacado: The Assassination of J.W. Jarrott, a Forgotten Hero
Jul 2017 · A.C. Greene Series Book 17 · University of North Texas Press
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In the winter of 1901, James W. Jarrott led a band of twenty-five homesteader families toward the Llano Estacado in far West Texas, newly opened for settlement by a populist Texas legislature. But frontier cattlemen who had been pasturing their herds on the unfenced prairie land were enraged by the encroachment of these “nesters.” In August 1902 a famous hired assassin, Jim Miller, ambushed and murdered J. W. Jarrott. Who hired Miller? This crime has never been solved, until now. Award-winning author Bill Neal investigates this cold case and successfully pieces together all the threads of circumstantial evidence to fit the noose snugly around the neck of Jim Miller’s employer. What emerges from these pages is the strength of intriguing characters in an engrossing narrative: Jim Jarrott, the diminutive advocate who fearlessly champions the cause of the little guy. The ruthless and slippery assassin, Deacon Jim Miller. And finally Jarrott’s young widow Mollie, who perseveres and prospers against great odds and tells the settlers to “Stay put!”
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Greg Collins
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Great book. Anyone from Meadow, Ropesville, Lubbock or Brownfield Texas should appreciate this story.
About the author
Bill Neal practiced criminal law in West Texas for forty years: twenty as a prosecutor and twenty as a defense attorney. His first two books, Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings and Celebrated Trials and From Guns to Gavels: How Justice Grew Up in the Outlaw West, both won the WTHA Rupert N. Richardson Award. He is also the author of Vengeance Is Mine: The Scandalous Love Triangle That Triggered the Boyce-Sneed Feud (UNT Press); Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law: Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style; and Skullduggery, Secrets, and Murders: The 1894 Wells Fargo Scam That Backfired.
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