Thursday, June 23, 2016

Bad Company and Burnt Powder: Justice and Injustice in the Old Southwest


(historynet.com) This offering from prolific Texas author Bob Alexander presents a dozen detailed profiles of frontier figures most general readers won’t recognize and who probably wouldn’t crack anyone’s list of top lawmen and outlaws in the old Southwest or anyplace else. But their stories, as related by an author who knows how to tell tales, are plenty lively. His style, which has been termed “breezy and colloquial,” makes one feel as if he is sitting around the home fires being entertained by good company. Continued

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