Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday--such are the legendary
names that spring to mind when we think of the western gunfighter.
But in the American West of the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, thousands of grassroots gunfighters straddled both sides
of the law without hesitation. "Deadly Dozen" tells the story of
twelve infamous gunfighters, feared in their own times but almost
forgotten today.
Now, noted historian Robert K. DeArment has compiled the stories
of these obscure men. DeArment, a life-long student of law and
lawlessness in the West, has combed court records, frontier
newspapers, and other references to craft twelve complete
biographical portraits. The combined stories of "Deadly Dozen"
offer an intensive look into the lives of imposing figures who in
their own ways shaped the legendary Old West.
More than a collective biography of dangerous gunfighters,
"Deadly Dozen "also functions as a social history of the gunfighter
culture of the post-Civil War frontier West. As Walter Noble Burns
did for Billy the Kid in 1926 and Stuart N. Lake for Wyatt Earp in
1931, DeArment--himself a talented writer--brings these figures
from the Old West to life.
John Bull, Pat Desmond, Mart Duggan, Milt Yarberry, Dan Tucker,
George Goodell, Bill Standifer, Charley Perry, Barney Riggs, Dan
Bogan, Dave Kemp, and Jeff Kidder are the twelve dangerous men that
Robert K. DeArment studies in "Deadly Dozen: Twelve Forgotten
Gunfighters of the Old West. "
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