The Shooters: A Gallery of Notorious Gunmen from the American West

With a scholar's authority and a storyteller's passion, Leon Metz chronicles the lives of famous gunfighters like Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Wild Bill Hickok, as well as lesser-known desperadoes who left just as many corpses and whiskey bottles in their wake. Rich in detail, and woven with wit and insight, these fascinating portraits reveal the Shooters as they really lived, fought, and died. Shooters -- Billy [the Kid]: the enduring legend -- Sam Bass: a square shooter -- Black Jack Ketchum: a true loser -- Tom Smith: he brought them in alive -- The James boys -- The Daltons: brothers on the prowl -- Elfego Baca: last of the old-time shooters -- Print Olive: just plain mean a hell -- Stoudenmire: El Paso marshal -- King Fisher: frontier dandy -- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid -- Dave Mather: a deadly shooter -- Pat Garrett -- Jim Miller: bushwhacker -- Chisum: cattle baron -- Luke Short and Jim Courtright -- Johnson County War -- Buffalo Bill: the remarkable showman -- Wild Bill Hickok -- Clay Allison: wild wolf of the Washita -- Texas Rangers -- Blood and salt -- John Larn: Texas killer -- Bass outlaw -- James Garrett: Texas Ranger -- Pearl Hart, John Ringo, and Jack Slade -- John Wesley Hardin -- Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp