Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.Prologue: The Measure of a Man.1. Child of the Southern Frontier.2. The World Turned Upside Down.3. Gone to Texas.4. Cow Towns and Pueblos.5. The Price of a Reputation.6. Friends and Enemies.7. The Fremont Street Fiasco.8. Vengeance.9. The Out Trail.10. A Holliday in Denver.11. A Living-and Dying-Legend.12. The Anatomy of a Western Legend.Epilogue: The Measure of a Legend.Notes.Index.

About the Author

GARY L. ROBERTS, Emeritus Professor of History, Abraham Baldwin College, is widely recognized as a historian of the American West and frontier violence. He has published more than seventy-five articles on Western history and coedited a book on Georgia politics, and is the author of Death Comes for the Chief Justice: The Slough-Rynerson Quarrel and Political Violence in New Mexico.

Reviews

"Highly recommended for both public and academic libraries" (Library Journal, March 15, 2006) "You can't beat this story for drama, and Roberts provides a step-by-step account of the gunfight." (Publishers Weekly, February 27, 2006)