In this new edition, Eugene Cunningham collects together biographies of a score of master gunfighters, including John Wesley Hardin, Billy the Kid, Dallas Stoudenmire, Sam Bass, Wild Bill Hickok, Butch Cassidy and Tom Horn. A discussion of the gunfighters' expertise with the fast draw is included. Illustrations
xi
Foreword
xiii
Eugene Manlove Rhodes
Introduction
xv
Joseph G. Rosa
Preface
xxxiii
The Gunman
1(440)
Breed of the Border
12(26)
Bill Longley
Forty Notches
38(28)
John Wesley Hardin
One Night in San Anton
66(24)
Ben Thompson
Tombstone's Deputy
90(39)
``Billy'' Breakenridge
Sure-Thing Killer
129(42)
Billy the Kid
Two-Gun Marshal
171(18)
Dallas Stoudenmire
Behind the Star
189(14)
``Jim'' Gillett
The ``Hammer Thumb''
203(15)
Long-haired Jim Courtright
``Bayard of the Chaparral''
218(18)
Ranger Captain John R. Hughes
The Little Wolf
236(13)
Bass Outlaw
``The Magnificent''
249(25)
Wild Bill Hickok
``He was Born in Indiana---''
274(24)
Sam Bass
Sheriff of Cochise
298(17)
John Slaughter
``Rush one Ranger!''
315(17)
Captain Bill McDonald
Boss of the Wild Bunch
332(18)
Butch Cassidy
``Railroaded''?---
350(39)
Tom Horn
One Man Army Corps
389(25)
General Lee Christmas
Triggernometry
414(27)
Random Testimony of the Experts. With Criticisms and Comparisons, Hoglegs and Homicides, Diagrams and Disagreements
Bibliography
441
Joseph G. Rosa