Metz, Leon Claire

Overview

Works:	62 works in 151 publications in 1 language and 6,711 library holdings
Genres:	Biographies History Guidebooks Local history Dictionaries Chronologies Juvenile works
Roles:	Author, Author of introduction
Classifications:	F801.G3, B

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Leon Claire Metz

Leon C. Metz by Deen Underwood( Book )
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Most widely held works by Leon Claire Metz

Pat Garrett : the story of a western lawman by Leon Claire Metz( Book )

12 editions published between 1973 and 2000 in English and held by 1,575 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Chronicles the life of Pat Garrett, the western lawman who killed Billy the Kid

Dallas Stoudenmire : El Paso Marshal by Leon Claire Metz( )

15 editions published between 1960 and 1993 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,050 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Story of the 19th-century Marshal of El Paso whose fast gun enforced the law but was not fast enough to save him from an assassin's bullet

John Selman, gunfighter by Leon Claire Metz( )

8 editions published between 1966 and 1992 in English and held by 732 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Leon Metz has pieced together, for the first time, all that is known of John Selman, a shadowy figure in Texas and New Mexico during the unsettled, often violent, period after the Civil War. Unlike many of his comrades--including the most notorious outlaws of his time--John Selman did not wish to become well known. Indeed, his penchant for assumed names indicates he did not wish to be known at all. Selman was an enigmatic man of many parts: he was an oldest son, responsive to the needs of his mother and siblings; a soldier with a talent for leadership--until his unexplained desertion from the Confederate Army; a husband and father; a rancher who struggled with, and murdered, would-be grangers; and a devoted friend to an evil influence named John Larn, with whom he seemed to kill for sport. As the Southwest became more settled, so did John Selman. At the end of his career, when he was a constable in El Paso, Selman lost his anonymity for all time: He was the man who killed John Wesley Hardin. Metz explores the stories surrounding Hardin's death--some said Selman shot Hardin in the back. Including rare photographs, Metz presents his conclusions about this legendary gunfighter

Border : the U.S.-Mexico line by Leon Claire Metz( Book )

9 editions published between 1989 and 2008 in English and held by 506 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A chronicle of the two-thousand mile border line between the United States and Mexico, from Brownsville, Texas on the Gulf of Mexico to near San Diego on the Pacific Ocean

The encyclopedia of lawmen, outlaws, and gunfighters by Leon Claire Metz( Book )

11 editions published between 2002 and 2003 in English and held by 433 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Profiles more than 500 men and women, along with key events and geographical locations, who played out their lives as gunfighters, robbers, and peace officers in the Old West

Roadside history of Texas by Leon Claire Metz( Book )

7 editions published between 1994 and 2007 in English and held by 422 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Texas history reaches far back in time by North American standards. It is fascinating and is woven from the frayed but firm strands of its rich past

The shooters : this unique chronicle depicts rare, historical & true stories of notorious gunmen : authentic, factual, uncommon by Leon Claire Metz( Book )

2 editions published in 1976 in English and held by 401 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This unique chronicle depicts rare-historical & true stories of notorious gunmen

John Wesley Hardin : dark angel of Texas by Leon Claire Metz( Book )

5 editions published between 1996 and 1998 in English and held by 288 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Examines the violent life of Western gunfighter John Wesley Hardin, following his career as a killer from shortly after the Civil War to his own murder in 1895

John Selman, Texas gunfighter by Leon Claire Metz( Book )

2 editions published between 1966 and 1980 in English and held by 226 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Biography of "the man who killed John Wesley Hardin."

The shooters by Leon Claire Metz( Book )

10 editions published between 1976 and 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 223 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Discussing the mythology of the Western gunfighter in the U.S., covering over thirty gunmen, including legends such as Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickok, and dangerous but less noted killers, including Clay Allison and James Gillett

Fort Bliss, an illustrated history by Leon Claire Metz( Book )

5 editions published between 1981 and 1988 in English and held by 159 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Turning points in El Paso, Texas by Leon Claire Metz( Book )

3 editions published between 1985 and 1988 in English and held by 105 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Traces the beginnings of the settlement along the Rio Grande to the evolution of an international city

Desert army : Fort Bliss on the Texas border by Leon Claire Metz( Book )

4 editions published between 1988 and 1995 in English and held by 103 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Traces the beginnings of Fort Bliss from its beginnings in 1849 as a frontier Army post to the present

El Paso chronicles : a record of historical events in El Paso, Texas by Leon Claire Metz( Book )

2 editions published between 1993 and 1994 in English and held by 74 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Traces the history of El Paso year to year from 970 million B.C. to 1993

Antrim & Billy by Donald Cline( Book )

1 edition published in 1990 in English and held by 72 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Little has been written about William Antrim, the only father the Kid ever knew. Cline's research documents Antrim's life from cradle to grave, much of it in Antrim's own words. New information is given about the childhood of Billy and his brother, Joe. A new insight into the legendary Billy

Wilson & the Kid by Donald R Lavash( Book )

1 edition published in 1990 in English and held by 67 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

City at the Pass : an illustrated history of El Paso by Leon Claire Metz( Book )

1 edition published in 1980 in English and held by 61 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

El Paso : guided through time by Leon Claire Metz( Book )

1 edition published in 1999 in English and held by 31 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Robert E. McKee, master builder of structures beyond the ordinary by Leon Claire Metz( Book )

1 edition published in 1997 in English and held by 29 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Southern New Mexico empire : the First National Bank of Dona Ana County by Leon Claire Metz( Book )

1 edition published in 1991 in English and held by 27 WorldCat member libraries worldwide