For Your Reference Shelf

As folks are being reintroduced to the Western classic True Grit, a topic at some dinner tables has been the appeal of executions, especially since the story shares how a crowd was drawn to one during Judge Isaac C. Parker’s Federal Court era in the Indian Territory. That territory was abolished when Oklahoma became a state in 1907. And although R. Michael Wilson’s latest reference work, which chronicles legal executions in seven Western states from the date of statehood, does not include