23 Jack Kenny Williams, Vogues in Villainy: Crime and Retribution in Ante-bellum South Carolina (Columbia, 1959), 4; Allen Trelease, White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction (New York, 1971), 72, 349.
24 Paul M. Angle, Bloody Williamson: A Chapter in American Lawlessness (New York, 1973); Henry P. Lundsgaarde, Murder in Space City: A Cultural Analysis of Houston Homicide Patterns (New York, 1977).
25 Hughes, North Country Life: The North East, 12-25.
26Ibid., 19; see also expenditures for pistols and holsters in Daniel Fleming Account Books, 16 March 1661, passim; ms. WD/R/199, CUMROK.
27 Fleming Account Book, 25 April 1665, ms. WD/R/199, CUMROK.
28 Hughes, North Country Life, 16.
29 Tough, The Last Years of a Frontier, 147-86.