Rowdy Joe Lowe: Gambler With a Gun

Rosa, Joseph G and Waldo E Koop

ISBN 10: 0806122285 / ISBN 13: 9780806122281

Published by University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, 1989

About this Item

Description: The jacket portrait painting is by William Clark Ellington, Jr. Includes a few black and white illustrations. Joseph Lowe mustered out of the Union Army and headed west after the Civil War. This story of Rowdy Joe Lowe is also a view into the saloons, brothels, and gambling halls of the frontier West. BINDING/CONDITION: black boards with red and white spine text; a Near Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket. bibliography, index. 8vo (8.25 inches tall). 188 pages.

Seller Inventory # 058616

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rowdy Joe Lowe: Gambler With a Gun
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806122285
• ISBN 13: 9780806122281
• Binding: Hardbound
• Edition: 1st Edition, so stated.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Western Americana

About this title

Synopsis

Traces the life of Joe Lowe, a famous saloon keeper of the Old West, and looks at that aspect of frontier life

About the Author

Joseph G. Rosa, (1932–2015), is the author of the definitive biography of Wild Bill Hickok, They Called Him Wild Bill: The Life and Adventures of James Butler Hickok, as well as The Gunfighter: Man or Myth? And (with Waldo E. Koop) Rowdy Joe Lowe: Gambler with a Gun, all published by the University of Oklahoma Press.