Hands Up; or, Thirty-Five Years of Detective Life in the Mountains and on the Plains

Hands Up; or, Thirty-Five Years of Detective Life in the Mountains and on the Plains - Reminiscences by General D. J. Cook, Chief of the Rocky Mountains Detective Association

This book consists of a series of reminiscences of Gen. D. J. Cook, chief of the Rocky Mountain Detective Association, which has been in existence for the past thirty-five years, during which time Gen. Cook has been continuously at its head. He organized it in the beginning and has remained with it from that time until his own name and that of the association have become almost synonymous terms in the entire Rocky Mountain country, where both are known and where both are respected and relied upon implicitly by honest people, and where both are proportionately feared by evil doers of all classes likely to have business with them. The stories told are all true records, but while their number is quite considerable they are only a portion of the thrilling experienceswhether his own or those of officers of his associationwith which his mind is stored. Indeed, if Gen. Cook should attempt to even furnish a complete narrative of his own adventures, it would fill a volume much larger than this one, for his has been a life of excitement and adventure, of exposure and hardships, of heroic deeds and many narrow escapes. Beginning as the son of an Indiana farmer, Mr. Cook has by his own unaided exertions, placed himself at the head of the detective force of the West, and has in many ways made himself prominent as a useful citizen of a growing region. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 43379
Author: Cook, D. J.‏ ‎(David J.)
Release Date: Aug 2, 2013
Format: eBook
Language: English