- Paperback: 344 pages
- Publisher: Univ of Nevada Pr; Reprint edition (October 1986)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 087417113X
- ISBN-13: 978-0874171136
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 14 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 386 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #277,238 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An historical hero brought to life, Mar 30 2000
By Carmon Friedrich - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Wells, Fargo Detective: The Biography of James B. Hume (Paperback)
Life in the Old West was perilous and uncertain. There were fortunes to be made in the gold fields and in the enterprises that followed the gold rush. Yet law enforcement was not well-established, and stagecoach and train robbers could wipe out a fortune as quickly as it was made. The Wells, Fargo Company needed a way to protect the great sums of money its coaches were responsible for delivering. It hired James B. Hume, a California lawman, to take charge of its detective bureau in 1873.James Hume was a different breed from the stereotypical western lawman who winked at civil rights and abused authority. He was just as concerned that an innocent man be kept out of jail as he was that he find the guilty man. And he had an impressive record of catching the guilty man, the most famous being Black Bart, the "Po8" stage coach robber.
Pioneering methods of criminal investigation which are now used widely, James Hume dug pellets out of a dead stage horse in order to do a ballistics test, and he tracked down Black Bart with the laundry mark from his handkerchief. Determined but patient, he logged an impressive number of solved cases.
This biography by Richard Dillon reads as smoothly as a novel. He used James Hume's own letters and diaries, which are in the Wells, Fargo Museum in San Francisco, for his research as very little had been written about Hume's life. He not only relates the fascinating events of Hume's public life but mines his personality as well and finds a heroic and likable figure.
In a time when we could use more heroes, I enjoyed reading about a real-life hero who contributed to the colorful past of the West and still maintained his integrity.
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