Chris Enss > Quotes

“We never did hang the wrong one but once or twice, and them fellers needed to be hung anyhow jes' on general principles."
-A NAMELESS JUDGE IN THE OLD WEST”
― Chris Enss, Tales Behind the Tombstones: The Deaths and Burials of the Old West's Most Nefarious Outlaws, Notorious Women, and Celebrated Lawmen

“A cemetery is a history of people -a perpetual record of yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery exists because crcrv life is worth loving and rc nrcnrbcrirli-alm111s. "
- WILLIAM GLADSTONE, PRIME MINISTER OF ENGLAND, 1890”
― Chris Enss, Tales Behind the Tombstones: The Deaths and Burials of the Old West's Most Nefarious Outlaws, Notorious Women, and Celebrated Lawmen

“There is so much bad in the best of us and so much good in the worst of us. That it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us.”
― Chris Enss, Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West

“233 - Answer to 82 - There is a lad in Missouri with afoot that's flat, with seeds in his pocket and a brick in his hat, with an eye that is blue and a No. 10 shoe - he's the "Bull of the Woods" and the boy for you.”
― Chris Enss, Object: Matrimony: The Risky Business of Mail-Order Matchmaking on the Western Frontier

“It’s girls whose ages are from 13 to 22 who are going astray, even as young as 9 years; deceived, betrayed, led away by the promise of making a fortune selling themselves.”
― Chris Enss, Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West