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Jim Cook, cattleman and raconteur, son of Mart Cook, was born on February 25, 1861, in Washington County, Arkansas. When the Civil War broke out, Mart enlisted in the Confederate Army and served as a captain under Gen. Sterling Price. Afterward he moved to Texas, rounded up cattle, and sought out a market in Kansas. Jim and his brother Al grew up in the saddle. In 1866 the Cooks were perhaps among the first to drive cattle north to Honeywell, Kansas....

A classic on all the trials and tribulations of the Santa Fe Trail, the Indian deprevations, the Mexican problems, the Fontier Military, the Fur Trappers, Fur Trade, and Mountain Men, Kit Carson, Uncle Dick Wooten, Buffalo Bill Cody, the Bents, Jim Beckwourth.

"The memory of John Dunn, gunman, professional gambler, stage driver,saloon keeper and general opportunist is so well known to the natives of Northern New Mexico that his name has become legendary" dust jacket.

An authorized biography of the legendary marshal describes the Old West exploits and law enforcement career of Wyatt Earp, his brothers Morgan and Virgil, and his sidekick, Doc Holliday.

With deeds of violence and vengeance, the seven Horrell brothers burned their names into the history books of Texas and New Mexico in the 1870s. The sons of early immigrants to Lampasas, Texas, they were Texans as if by birth, raised to horses, cattle, whiskey, and guns. Their iron wills were forged in the flames of the lawless frontier, hammered on the anvil of the Civil War, and tempered in the waters of Reconstruction and the Indian Wars. With...

A must read for anyone with even remote interest in cowboy working history. The detail involving driving a working cattle is unsurpassed, as well as childhood adventures involving Indian interactions. Hard to put down. The wild west, not all pretty, but very real and told by a first hand witness. He lived during the era that spanned the Civil War to the atomic bomb, and describes it starkly.

History has treated Billy the Kid like a homicidal psychopath, a brazen madman responsible for as many as 21 murders. Steeped in legend, shrouded in folklore and outright lies, Billy the Kid has been portrayed for over 125 years as one of the most savage killers in American folklore. Yet for others, particularly the Hispanic people of the Southwest, the Kid was an avenging angel and a sagebrush Robin Hood. For them and many others, the Kid embodied...

In a violent half-minute, in a gunfight near the O.K. Corral, Wyatt Earp became a legend. He was thirty-three. He died forty-eight years later, in Hollywood, where he worked as an advisor on film westerns. He'd had firsthand experience in the creation of American myth, and in this remarkable volume, Allen Barra illuminates fully the man who strode into our national imagination, as well as the myths that have continually reinvented him in history,...