Download or read book Hell Holes and Hangings written by Fred Harrison and published by Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum. This book was released on 1968 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Territorial prisons and penitentiaries were meant to be just a little tougher than the meanest outlaw the devil ever made -- and they were. This is the story of a selected few of these prisons, and of the taut, life-and-death dramas often played out within the shadows of their brooding walls. In some ways, it is a story of shame, of sadistic guards, corupt officials and a justice which was often impulsive and vengeful. But it is also a story of magnificence in the massive battle between right and wrong during America's most lawless period." -- p. VIII.