BAD COMPANY. by Joseph Henry Jackson.
Story of California's legendary and actual stage-robbers, bandits, highwaymen, and outlaws from the fifties to the eighties. Desperadoes of the 1800s and their deeds and characters, including Joaquin Murieta ("California's most glamorous outlaw'), Dick Fellows, Tom Bell, Black Bart (who left poetry in treasure boxes he emptied), Sheet-iron Jack (erstwhile barber), brutal Juan Soto, lady-killer Tiburuco Vasquez, Jack Powers of Santa Barbara, and Juan Flores (revolutionary). 366 pages, sources, index.
ISBN: 0-8032-5866-6. 1977. Cover bent. Order #: UNNE7008 paper$9.95.

BILL DOOLAN, OUTLAW: O.T. Hanes.
Biography of ex-Dalton gang member called "King of the Oklahoma Outlaws". Photos, 256 pages.
ISBN: 0-8061-1655-8. Order #: ZZTB5746 paper$8.95.

 

 

 

BUTCH CASSIDY: the congenial desperado. Walker.
Life and escapades of famous outlaw. Photos, 64 pages. Baxter Lane titles are suited for gift stores and souvenir shops in tourist areas.
ISBN: None. Order #: BALA9267 paper$3.95

 

 

 

DEADLY DAYS IN KANSAS. by Wayne C. Lee.
Documents the state's early wild days when it often was tough to tell the good guys from the bad. Meet the legends of Dodge City and Abilene--Bill Hickok, Clay Alison, the Earp brothers, Tom Swift. Contains more than 60 incidents of the Wild West that occurred between 1843 and 1932. The Civil War years, wild times, last of the trail drives, day of the gangs, last and new century of bad men. Nearly 100 photographs, many historical, 138 large-format pages, index.
ISBN: 0-87004-379-X. 1997. Order # : CAXT2493 paper$14.95.

DOC HOLLIDAY, BAT MASTERSON, & WYATT EARP: their Colorado Careers. by E. Richard Churchill.
Colorado adventures of 3 of Old West's most colorful characters during times of gold and frontier camps such as Creede, Leadville, Trinidad, Gunnison, Pueblo. Photos, 39 pages, bibliography, index. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN: 0-913488-05-4. Order #: TIMB0757 paper$10.00.10/24: SOLD OUT

 

 

THE EARP BROTHERS OF TOMBSTONE: the story of Mrs. Virgil Earp. by Frank Waters.
Composite biographies of Wyatt, Morgan, Virgil, James, and Warner Earp of Tombstone, Arizona.. Includes Santa Fe Trail, O,K. Corral, Dodge City, as well as early history of the area that became the state of Arizona. time period is latter 1800s. Map, 255 pages, citations.
ISBN: 0-8032-5838-0. Cover lightly scuffed; light smudge on book's side. Order #: UNNE7011paper$6.95.

 

A FITTING DEATH FOR BILLY THE KID. by Ramon F. Adams.
How the "Kid" legend was born and grew about this young outlaw. Author tells of the events of the kid's short life, setting out to write not so much a biography as a commentary on a myth, sifting legend and tall tale and outright lie to arrive at the truth about the seemingly immortal Billy. When we know the truth about Bill's end--not in a blaze of glory--it was a fitting-death. Illustrated, 320 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-8061-1764-8. 1960. Order #: UNOK5678 paper$12.95.

 

GUNFIGHTERS. by George Turner.
Portrays 29 gunfighters in 64 pages. Illustrated. Baxter Lane titles are suited for gift stores and souvenir shops in tourist areas.
ISBN: None. Order #: BALA9266 paper$3.95

 

 

LAW WEST OF FORT SMITH. by Glenn Shirley.
For 21 years, from 1875 to 1896, federal Judge Isaac C. Parker and his "hanging court" held exclusive jurisdiction over 74,000 square miles of Arkansas and Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), worked with 200 deputy marshals to bring justice and order against overwhelming odds. Traces careers of famous criminals such as Daltons, Belle Starr, the Buck gang, and Cole Younger. Called a startling reminder of what really went on in the Old West before later media turned it into a seeming primrose path. Appendix includes a chronology of the 79 hangings Parker ordered, a list of commutations and pardons, reversals and acquittals, and bonds forfeited plus two of the judge's instructions to juries. 342 pages including notes and bibliography.
ISBN: 978-0-8032-5153-1. A Bison Book. Order #: UNNE1591 paper$14.95.

 

THE LIFE OF PAT F. GARRETT and the Taming of the Border Outlaw. by John Milton Scanland.
A history of the gunmen, outlaws, and a life history of the greatest sheriff of the Old Southwest. Includes "Billy the Kid", ethics of the "drop" cattle disputes, murders. 5 illustrations, 44 pages.
ISBN: 0-910584-18-4. 1971. Order #: FILT0485 paper$3.95.

 

 

THE McCARTYS--They Rode with Butch Cassidy. by E. Richard Churchill.
Records the misdeeds of an exciting and colorful bunch of outlaws through Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Washington, Montana, Wyoming, and Oregon. "They were the "Wild Bunch" who terrified the Southwest 1880-90s. Cattle rustling, bank robberies, posse-avoiding, flights, gunfights, prison are all related. Photographs, 44 pages, index. See sample pages, illustrations.
Check stock. ISBN: 0-913488-02-X. Order #: TIMB0762 paper$3.95.

 

 

#OUTLAW: on the dodge with Baldy Russell. Sonnichsen.
Story of a frontier fugitive from the law in Texas and New Mexico. Photos, 198 pages.
ISBN: 0-8040-08963-9. Order #: SWAL1476 paper$9.95.

QUEEN OF COWTOWNS--Dodge City: "the wickedest little city in America, 1872-1886". by Stanley Vestal. From military post through buffalo camp to cattle market; thieves and lawmen. Starting out as the Fort Doge military post, Dodge City became the booming camp of the buffalo hunters and then the greatest cattle market in the world. Stories of gunfighter-outlaws and marshals, dance-hall girls, horse thieves, train robberies, Indian scares, and pranksters. 295 pages, illustrations.
ISBN: 0-8032-5758-9. Order #: UNNE1573 paper$7.95.

 

 

SECRETS OF JESSE JAMES. Turner.
Life and death of legendary outlaw. Drawings, 64 pages. Baxter Lane titles are suited for gift stores and souvenir shops in tourist areas.
ISBN: None. Order #: BALA9264 paper$3.95.

 

 

SIX YEARS WITH THE TEXAS RANGERS: 1875-1881. by James B. Gillett.
Classic account of recruit's service depicts how rangers maintained law and order on the frontier: captures, Indian pursuits, feuds, shootings. Author served as a ranger in its formative years, shows how duties wee varied and its members were unorthodox as its methods were irregular--at times with summary justice. Illustrated, 294 pages, extensive index.
ISBN: 0-8032-5844-5. Order #: UNNE2296 paper$19.95.

 

 

#THE TEXAS RANGERS. Hardin.
Development of this police force from its beginnings as Indian fighters to its role today.
ISBN: 1-85532-155-6. Order #: STAC6482 paper$11.95.

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BUFFALO BILL'S TRUE TALES. by William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody.
Buffalo Bill remains known and of interest because he typifies the romantic figure of the American West. His Wild West shows, a mixture of rodeo and circus along with real-life history, spread his fame, dramatizing this frontiersman as a super rider and top marksman. To us moderns, reading how Cody could be both an Indian killer and a friend of the Indian people might be hard to grasp, but it is important to grasp to better understand the nature of the frontier. Indian Chief Sitting Bull, for instance, and Buffalo Bill had stood against each other in matters of war, but toured in the Wild West show together! Also here are his tales as a Pony Express rider, buffalo hunter, and riding his horse for their lives. This is Bill's story, in his words; and yet, as an American, it is your story, too. Period illustrations, with a color cover, 24 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-022-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-098-0. Order #: VIST0098 paper$3.95.

 FAMOUS GUNFIGHTERS OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER. by W. B. (Bat) Masterson.
Biographies of gunfighters by the master himself, including Ben Thompson, Wyatt Earp, Luke Short, Buffalo Bill Cody, Doc Holliday, Billy Tilghman, Bat Masterson, and others. Includes Tombstone's famous fight at the O.K. Corral, how Holliday got into his career, Indian battles, stagecoach wrecks and holdups, barroom brawls, sheriffs of the West, gambling and gamblers, cattle rustlers, railroads. Settings include cowtowns--Dodge, Hays, Sheridan, Cody, Leadville, Fort Worth, Glenwood Springs. Reprinted from 1907.
Illustrations from the original and period sources, including Frederic Remington. 96 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-087-8. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-087-4. Order #: VIST0087 paper$6.95.

THE LIFE AND WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF WILD BILL (J. B. Hickok). by James W. Buel.
Author Buel was a newspaper man of Hickok's day and later one of Hickok's principal biographers, thus a source probably as close to the truth as we can get on the now legendary figure Wild Bill. Bill's reputation as a fighter emerged early in his career, and the fear that struck in the hearts of opponents helped him command many a situation before a showdown. But when one came, his courage was legend, as he was always willing to fight no matter the odds. He paid a price, though. He spent much of his life convalescing from bullet and knife wounds! While sheriff, he accidentally shot his deputy, and Wild Bill himself was finally assassinated while playing cards. Bill lived his life during the periods of the Civil War and the Indian Wars that followed, in the era of the Wild West as celebrated by Buffalo Bill's Wild West shows, and in which Wild Bill appeared for a time. Reprinted from Heroes of the West, 1881.Period drawings. 56 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-013-4. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-013-3. Order #: VIST0013 paper$4.95.

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