Deadly Dozen - Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, Vol. 3 (Paperback)

For every Wild Bill Hickok or Billy the Kid, there was another western gunfighter just as deadly but not as well known. Robert K. DeArment has earned a reputation as the premier researcher of unknown gunfighters, and here he offers twelve more portraits of men who weren't glorified in legend but were just as notorious in their day.Those who think they already know all about Old West gunfighters will be amazed at this new collection. Here are men like Porter Stockton, the Texas terror who bragged that he had killed eighteen men, and Jim Levy, who killed a man for disparaging his Irish blood, though he was also the only known Jewish gunfighter. These stories span eight decades, from the gold rushes of the 1850s to the 1920s. Telling of gunmen such as Jim Masterson, the brother of Bat Masterson, or the real Whispering Smith-the man behind the fictionalized persona-whose career spanned four decades, DeArment conscientiously separates fact from fiction to reconstruct lives all the more amazing for having remained unknown for so long. The product of iron-clad research, this newest Deadly Dozen delivers the goods for gunfighter buffs in search of something different. Together the Deadly Dozen volumes constitute a Who's Who of western outlaws and prove that there's more to the Wild West than Jesse James.

General

Imprint:	University of Oklahoma Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2023
Authors:	Robert K. DeArment
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	414
ISBN-13:	978-0-8061-9207-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Fiction > True stories > Crime Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	0-8061-9207-0
Barcode:	9780806192079

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