Deadly Affrays; The Violent Deaths of the U.S. Marshals - Softcover

Robert Ernst

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0975321919 ISBN 13: 9780975321911

Publisher: Scarlet Mask, 2006

Synopsis

Documents the violent deaths of 288 U.S. marshals, Deputy U.S. marshals, posse and guards while serving with the U.S. Marshals from 1789 - 2004 and in almost every state.

About this title

About the Author:

A former law enforcement officer the author spent 20 years documenting the line of duty deaths of the U.S. marshals. Born in Minnesota, the author attended the University of Minnesota and then entered law enforcement in Michigan and serving for over ten years. The author has published over forty journal articles in such publications as Oklahombres, NOLA, WOLA, Frontier Times and WWHA.

Review:

Historian Robert Ernst has put together a who's who of members of the U.S. Marshals Service; short biographies of the 288 lawmen of America's oldest federal law enforcement agency killed in the line of duty. The book should give everyone an idea of how dangerous law enforcement was, and still is. --Roundup Magazine, February 2007

This valuable reference book identifies the U.S. Marshals and how they met their death. Until this work the service had no comprehensive study of its members who died in the line of duty. This work is complete, covering the country from California to Alaska, to the Carolinas and Texas. The work is a gripping theme which is universal, that good men must continue to combat evil. --NOLA Quarterly, Oct-Dec 2006

Once in a very long while, a book comes along that is truly a researcher's dream. Bob Ernst, a career lawman himself, has now given lawman and outlaw students a compendium of brief life-sketches of U.S. marshals and deputy marshals who gave their lives in the line of duty. There is little to criticize about this fine book. May this book receive the wide-circulation it deserves. --WOLA Journal, Summer 2006

About this edition

• Publisher: Scarlet Mask
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0975321919
• ISBN 13: 9780975321911
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 530
• Editor: Sharon Cunningham
• Illustrator: Mark Boardman