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The Last Sheriff in Texas : A True Tale of Violence and the Vote by McCollom, James P. is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Last Sheriff in Texas : A True Tale of Violence and the Vote about?
An Amazon Best History Book of the Month "[A] narrative with resonance well beyond seekers of Texas history. The Last Sheriff in Texas would be an amazing allegory for our times, were it fiction. Instead it suggests cultural trenches that we view as new that were dug decades ago." —Houston Chronicle Beeville, Texas, was the most American of small towns—the place that GIs had fantasized about while fighting through the ruins of Europe, a place of good schools, clean streets, and churches. Old West justice ruled, as evidenced by a 1947 shootout when outlaws surprised popular sheriff Vail Ennis at a gas station and shot him five times, point–blank, in the belly. Ennis managed to draw his gun and put three bullets in each assailant; he reloaded and shot them three times more. Time magazine’s full–page article on the shooting was seen by some as a referendum on law enforcement owing to the sheriff’s extreme violence, but supportive telegrams from all across America poured into Beeville’s tiny post office. Yet when a second violent incident threw Ennis into the crosshairs of public opinion once again, the uprising was orchestrated by an unlikely figure: his close friend and Beeville’s fa
Who reads The Last Sheriff in Texas : A True Tale of Violence and the Vote?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- McCollom, James P.
- Publisher
- Counterpoint, Recorded Books
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501997266
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (259 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14