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In this new revisionist biography, award-winning historian Michael Wallis, the best-selling author of Route 66, re-creates the rich, anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid (1859-1881), a deeply mythologized young man who became a legend in his own time and remains an enigma to this day. Book jacket.
5) Hornswogglers, fourflushers, & snake-oil salesmen: true tales of the old west's sleaziest swindlers
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[2015]
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"Watch your wallets, and keep an eye on your keys! It's a slippery collection of tales about the Old West's sleaziest swindlers... and they're all true. No, really" -- Back cover.
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2005
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"James A. Crutchfield, a longtime WWA secretary-treasurer and seasoned historian, has assembled a remarkable cadre of authors. Included are winners of the Owen Wister Award, given each year to the best nonfiction book of the West: David Dary explores the network of trails that led explorers West, Bill Gulick recalls the steamboat days of the Pacific Northwest, Leon Claire Metz goes deep into John Wesley Hardin's world, Robert M. Utley shows us the...