The short, bloody career of "Bronco Bill" Walters and his gang
captures the devil-may-care violence of the Wild West. In this
detailed narrative of the gang's crime spree in territorial New
Mexico and Arizona, two experts in outlaw history offer a
gunshot-by-gunshot account of how some especially dangerous outlaws
plied their trade in 1898.
William Walters reached New Mexico Territory from Texas in the
late 1880s and quickly gained a reputation for his ability to sit a
horse and for his violent ways. "The Bronco Bill Gang" skillfully
dissects his propensity for trouble and shows how he soon found
himself in the territorial penitentiary. In the spring of 1898,
after a sojourn stealing horses in Arizona, Walters and four
apprentice outlaws turned to armed robbery, holding up passenger
trains on the Santa Fe Railroad in Grants and Belen, New Mexico. By
the time a Wells Fargo posse captured Bronco Bill, two of the
outlaws, two deputies, and a Navajo tracker had been killed in
gunfights.
Anyone with a taste for western history or an interest in New
Mexico and Arizona in the bad old days will find this book
irresistible. The authors' attention to the ways Bill and his men
fell into a life of crime shows us the real West, where cowboys and
gunmen could wind up on either side of the law. "The Bronco Bill
Gang" is the first book to explore this fabled band of outlaws who
crisscrossed the American Southwest.
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