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 helped forge the gunfighter persona, but their stories have been lost to time.
Readers who enjoyed DeArment\'s Deadly Dozen will find this book equally captivating-as gripping as a showdown, twelve times over..
These overlooked shooters never won national headlines but made their own contributions to the blood and thunder of the Old West: people less than legends, but all the more fascinating because they were real.
His vignettes offer telling insights into conditions on the frontier that created the Gunfighters of legend.
In giving these men their due, Dearment takes readers back to the gunfighter culture spawned in part by the upheavals of the Civil War, to a time when Deadly duels were part of the social fabric of frontier towns and the Code of the West was real.
Photos of the men and telling quotations from primary sources make these characters come alive.
Dearment has tracked down stories of gunmen from throughout the West-characters you won\'t find in any of today\'s western history encyclopedias but whose careers are colorfully described here.
Dearment now offers more biographical portraits of lesser-known gunfighters-men who perhaps weren\'t glorified in legend or song, but who were rightfully notorious in their day.
In a sequel to his Deadly Dozen , celebrated western historian Robert K.
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 helped forge the gunfighter persona, but their stories have been lost to time
