Overview :Here for the first time is the complete life story of the controversial lawman Frank Canton, born Joe Horner, who, after conviction and impr... Read More
Overview :The English essayist Charles Lamb once said, "Man is a gaming animal." If he had known the American frontier gamblers depicted in this book,... Read More
Overview : Settlers in the frontier West were often easy prey for criminals. Policing efforts were scattered at best and often amounted to vigilante r... Read More
Overview :In the 1870s, Deadwood was a thriving--and largely lawless--boomtown. And as any fan of western history and films knows, stagecoach robberie... Read More
Overview :"Bleeding Kansas" has earned its name. A state already scarred from the violence wrought by the likes of John Brown and William Quantrill, K... Read More
Overview :He may be little known today, but Ben Daniels was a feared gunman who typified the journeyman gunfighter every bit as much as those whose na... Read More
Overview :Timothy Isaiah "Longhair Jim" Courtright operated on both sides of the law and became a legend in his lifetime and after his death. One of t... Read More
Overview :The colorful figures of the western American frontier, the Indian fighters, the mountain men, the outlaws, and the lawmen, have been romanti... Read More
Overview :Now, for the first time, Robert K. DeArment has told the full story of George Scarborough's life, illuminating his activity as a lawman duri... Read More
Overview :Think gunfighter, and Wyatt Earp or Billy the Kid may come to mind, but what of Jim Moon? Joel Fowler? Zack Light? A host of other figures h... Read More
Overview :Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday--such are the legendary names that spring to mind when we think of the western gunfighter. But in th... Read More
Overview :More than a century after his death in 1878, the mere mention of John Larn's name can trigger strong reactions along the Clear Fork of the B... Read More
Overview : Settlers in the frontier West were often easy prey for criminals. Policing efforts were scattered at best and often amounted to vigilante r... Read More
Overview :The legend of Bat Masterson as the heroic sheriff of Dodge City, Kansas, began in 1881 when an acquaintance duped a New York Sun reporter in... Read More
Overview :For every Wild Bill Hickok or Billy the Kid, there was another western gunfighter just as deadly but not as well known. Robert K. DeArment h... Read More