Murder in Montague: Frontier Justice and Retribution in Texas

On a sweltering August night in 1876, Methodist minister William England, his wife, Selena, and two of...
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Author: Glen Sample Ely
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Murder in Montague: Frontier Justice and Retribution in Texas by Ely, Glen Sample

Murder in Montague: Frontier Justice and Retribution in Texas

Dhs. 122.38

Murder in Montague: Frontier Justice and Retribution in Texas

Dhs. 122.38
Author: Glen Sample Ely
Format: Paperback
Language: English
On a sweltering August night in 1876, Methodist minister William England, his wife, Selena, and two of her children were brutally slaughtered in their North Texas home. Acting on Selena's deathbed testimony, a neighbor, his brother-in-law, and a friend were arrested and tried for the murders. Murder in Montague tells the story of this gruesome crime and its murky aftermath. In this engrossing blend of true crime reporting, social drama, and legal history, author Glen Sample Ely presents a vivid snapshot of frontier justice and retribution in Texas following the Civil War.

The sheer brutality of the Montague murders terrified settlers already traumatized by decades of chaos, violence, and fear--from the deadly raids of Comanche and Kiowa Indians to the terrors of vigilantes, lynchings, and Reconstruction lawlessness. But the crime's aftermath--involving five Texas governors, five trials at Montague and Gainesville, five appeals to the Texas Court of Appeals, and three life sentences at hard labor in the state's abominable and inhumane prison system--offered little in the way of reassurance or resolution.

Viewed from any perspective, the 1876 England family murders were both a human tragedy and a miscarriage of justice. Combining the long view of history and the intimate detail of true crime reporting, Murder in Montague deftly captures this moment of reckoning in the story of Texas, as vigilante justice grudgingly gave way to an established system of law and order.


Author: Glen Sample Ely
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 08/27/2020
Pages: 166
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9780806167091


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/18/2020 pg. 1

About the Author
Ely, Glen Sample: - Glen Sample Ely is the award-winning author of The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858-1861 and Murder in Montague: Frontier Justice and Retribution in Texas.

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