Deadly Dozen: Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, Vol. 3 by Robert K. DeArment - 2010-03-15

Hardback. New. 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 has earned a reputation as the premier researcher of unknown gunfighters, and here he offers twelve more portraits of men who weren't glorified in legend but were just as notorious in their day.Those who think they already know all about Old West gunfighters will be amazed at this new collection. Here are men like Porter Stockton, the Texas terror who bragged that he had killed eighteen men, and Jim Levy, who killed a man for disparaging his Irish blood, though he was also the only known Jewish gunfighter. These stories span eight decades, from the gold rushes of the 1850s to the 1920s. Telling of gunmen such as Jim Masterson, the brother of Bat Masterson, or the real Whispering Smith--the man behind the fictionalized persona--whose career spanned four decades, DeArment conscientiously separates fact from fiction to reconstruct lives all the… Read More

University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. Hardcover. New. 396 pages. 8.50x5.75x1.25 inches.

University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. Hardcover. New. 396 pages. 8.50x5.75x1.25 inches.

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