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.

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

Biographies & Memoirs

Metz, Leon Claire

Historical

Penguin Publishing Group

Before Dallas Stoudenmire accepted the position as marshal of El Paso, there existed no authority except that of the six-shooter, and very little precedent for a peace officer to follow. No one before had held the job for more than a couple of months. Yet, within two years, with the help of Jim Gillett, his young deputy, Stoudenmire had cleaned up the town, a task that earned him many enemies and, in the end, death.This is the story of Dallas Stoudenmire-auburn-haired, fiery-eyed, six-foot, two-inch gunfighter, container of laughter, liquor, and death-during the two tumultuous years in the early 1880’s when he served as almost the only law north of the Rio Grande and west of Fort Worth.

Dallas Stoudenmire: El Paso Marshall

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Leon Metz has pieced together, for the first time, all that is known of John Selman, a shadowy figure in Texas and New Mexico during the unsettled, often violent, period after the Civil War. Unlike many of his comrades—including the most notorious outlaws of his time—John Selman did not wish to become well known. Indeed, his penchant for assumed names indicates he did not wish to be known at all. Selman was an enigmatic man of many parts: he was an oldest son, responsive to the needs of his mother and siblings; a soldier with a talent for leadership—until his unexplained desertion from the Confederate Army; a husband and father; a rancher who struggled with, and murdered, would-be grangers; and a devoted friend to an evil influence named John Larn, with whom he seemed to kill for sport. As the Southwest became more settled, so did John Selman. At the end of his career, when he was a constable in El Paso, Selman lost his anonymity for all time: He was the man who killed John Wesley Hardin. Metz explores the stories surrounding Hardin's death—some said Selman shot Hardin in the back. Including rare photographs, Metz presents his conclusions about this legendary gunfighter.

John Selman, Gunfighter

Profiles more than 500 men and women, along with key events and geographical locations, who played out their lives as gunfighters, robbers, and peace officers in the Old West.

The Encyclopedia of Lawmen, Outlaws, and Gunfighters (Facts on File Crime Library)

History

Americas

FACTS ON FILE+

The Encyclopedia of Lawmen, Outlaws, and Gunfighters

Checkmark Books

This book guides visitors and residents along the state's highways and through its past to reveal the key figures and events that have made Texas what it is today.

Roadside History of Texas (Roadside History Series)

Mountain Pr

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.

The Shooters

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Mangan Books

Fort Bliss: An Illustrated History

Politics & Government

"As you turn the pages of this book you will experience the events from the primordial beginnings of the Rio Grande to the evolution of an international city..."-from the inside flap.

Turning Points in El Paso Texas

Desert Army: Fort Bliss on the Texas Border

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