Title The Notorious Luke Short : Sporting Man of the Wild West / by Jack DeMattos and Chuck Parsons ; with a foreword by Rick Miller.

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Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, [2015]

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Description	1 online resource (xxii, 326 pages :) : illustrations, map.
Series	Number 16 in the A.C. Greene series
	A.C. Greene series ; no. 16.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-315) and index.
Contents	The cowboy by birth -- Tall tales and short facts -- The gambler by choice -- Get out of Dodge! -- A plain statement & shots from Short -- The Dodge City peace commission -- The White Elephant in Panther City -- Sporting men of Fort Worth -- Dead man in a shooting gallery -- Mrs. Luke Short -- The war on the gambling fraternity -- State of Texas vs. Luke Short -- The sport of kings and a palace royal -- The main event -- Luke Short -- prize fight promoter -- The last gunfight -- Chicago -- Game over.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Short, Luke L., 1854-1893.
	Short, Luke L., 1854-1893. (OCoLC)fst00359287
	Gamblers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
	Cowboys -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
	Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
	West (U.S.) -- Biography.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
	GAMES -- Gambling -- General.
	Cowboys. (OCoLC)fst00881986
	Frontier and pioneer life. (OCoLC)fst00935370
	Gamblers. (OCoLC)fst00937365
	United States, West. (OCoLC)fst01243255
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Added Author	Parsons, Chuck, author.
Other Form:	Print version: 9781574415940 1574415948 (DLC) 2015003807
ISBN	1574416022 (electronic bk.)
	9781574416022 (electronic bk.)

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