Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

"In the major-league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory." "Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits - drinking, drugs, and women. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept twenty hours...

The Unlikely Felon is the story of Will and Kay Young, who for years loved, cared for, and supported Will's grandparents while raising young children and pursuing entrepreneurial ambitions. Suddenly, their lives turned upside down one cold, February day in 2011. A knock on their door was not an Amazon delivery, but something devastating-a police search. In moments, everything they had built for twenty years-businesses, reputations, friendships-crumbled....

Discusses homicide rates and punishments in turn-of-the-century Arizona, Nebraska, and Colorado and argues that whites were given preferential treatment over people of other races in homicide case decisions.

The gruesome murders of the actress Sharon Tate, her unborn child, and four others at the hands of the notorious "Manson family" on August 9, 1969 rocked the nation. The atrocities, the trial and the subsequent conviction of Charles Manson and his followers spawned a media frenzy--a defining moment in an era otherwise associated with peace, love and understanding. Yet while this crime left an indelible mark on society's consciousness, it was an even...