Much information (some of it factual, a lot of it fictional) is
available about the famous gunfighters of the Old West - the
Jameses, Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp, John Wesley
Hardin, and that latter-day folk idol, Butch Cassidy. Dozens of
less-well-known but sometimes even more murderous gunslingers -
such men as Cullen Baker, Harvey Logan, Longhaired Jim Courtright,
and Mysterious Dave Mather - have received only scant mention in
scattered accounts.This encyclopedia - a who's who of the
gunfighting West-provides a compilation of facts, sifted myths,
folklore, and outright lies, about the lives and deaths of 255 men,
both the famous and the all but forgotten. Also included are
detailed accounts of the almost six hundred gunfights the men took
part in, mostly between the end of the Civil War and the turn of
the century. Each entry follows a concise and useful format: an
alphabetical listing of the gunman; nicknames or aliases; dates and
places of birth and death, is known; the occupations the man
pursued; a brief biography; and, in chronological order, accounts
of the verified gunfights in which he participated. In the
Introduction, from the information he amassed in this volume, Bill
O'Neal provides a fascinating summary of the data and offers new
insights into the nature of the western gunmen and of the feuds and
fights that bloodied the West. For example, he relates how a large
number of the gunfighters used guns as tools of their trades,
legitimate and otherwise - lawmen and detectives, buffalo hunters,
army scouts, thieves, hired killers, and the like. Of the
gunfighters included here 108 served as law officers at some time
in their careers. The average lifespan, including those who died of
natural causes, was forty-seven years, and more than 50 percent of
the gunmen died from gunshot wounds. Encyclopedia of Western
Gunfighters offers a unique compilation of information about these
men - a comprehensive and reliable source.
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