Hands Up; Or, Twenty Years of Detective Life in the Mountains and on the Plains; Reminiscences by General D.J. Cook, Superintendent of the Rocky Mountain Detective Association; A Condensed Criminal History of the Far West (Series: Western Frontier Library 11.)

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 1958, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 319pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Illustrations. There is a previous owner's name on the front endpaper and the dust jacket is price-clipped, lightly rubbed at the edges. "During his long career as a detective and peace officer in the Rocky Mountain area, during which he personally arrested more than three thousand culprits, General (of Colorado Militia) D. J. Cook learned and took occasion to enunciate an important principle: 'Never hit a prisoner over the head with your pistol, because you may afterwards want to use your weapon and find it disabled'". Time Period 19th Century. Introduction by Everette Lee Degolyer. Locale: Rocky Mountain Frontier; Western America. Series: Western Frontier Library 11. (Western America, History--United States, Reminiscences, True Crime, Western America, Wild West).