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John Selman Gunfighter (Paperback, New Ed)
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Discovery Miles 5 120
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John Selman Gunfighter (Paperback, New Ed)
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Loot Price R512
Discovery Miles 5 120
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"Selman was a typical frontier character. He grew up on the edge of
civilization; fought with (and deserted) the Confederacy, became
the leader of a hard-case gang in New Mexico during Lincoln County
War days, and ended his career as a more-or-less respectable
policeman in El Paso. He secured for himself a place in frontier
history by killing John Wesley Hardin in the Acme Saloon on August
19, 1895. Eight months later, on April 5, 1896, be himself was shot
and killed in an El Paso alley. Metz gathers up the scattered
pieces of the Selman saga with extraordinary skill and puts them
together in a well-told narrative."-Journal of Arizona History
"This book goes much further than a discussion of the Hardin
affair. It shows both sides of John Selman in an unbiased, factual
way and describes a good many other interesting anecdotes in the
life of Selman from his Civil War service to his escapades in Texas
and New Mexico. While he did serve at times in various capacities
as an officer of the law, his life story leaves little doubt in the
mind's eye that here was basically a cold-blooded, vicious
sociopath. . . . John Selman, before he, too, was gunned down, bad
outlived all of the other gunslingers of the Old West and his
passing really noted the passing of an era."-Annals of Wyoming
"This is quite a book about one of the West's most infamous gunmen,
about whom very little bas been written. Mr. Metz has done a
workmanlike job. His research was extensive and there are
thirty-six pages of notes, a bibliography, and records of personal
interviews."-Denver Westerners' Roundup Leon Claire Metz, a
biographer and historian of the early Southwest, lives in El Paso,
Texas. He is also the author of Pat Garrett: Story of a Western
Lawman and Dallas Stoudenmire: El Paso Marshal, both published by
the University of Oklahoma Press.
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