Lawmen
Black, Red, and Deadly by Art Burton. Absolutely the most fascinating book on Black and Indian gunfighters of the Indian Territories. Included are Ned Christie, Cherokee Bill, Henry Starr, Rufus Buck Gang, Dick Glass, and a slew of other baddies. Also included are the heroes: Bass Reeves, the Lighthorse, Sam Sixkiller, Grant Johnson, Zeke Miller, and others who wore the star. Wonderful book!
Famous Lawmen of the Old West by Dorothy M. Johnson. They are all here from Big Foot Wallace to Wil Bill Hickok. There's Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, X Beidler, Pat Garrett, Bill Tilghman, Burton Mossman, Charlie Siringo...lots more.
The Gunfighter, Man or Myth by Joseph G. Rosa. The gunfighter was a man bred in a lawless and violent era of civil war, range wars, and greed for land and gold. He played a real and deadly part in a period when men were conditioned to settle differences with gunplay. He shot and fought and killed throughout Texas in its struggle with Mexico, along the Kansas-Missouri border, and up and down the cattle trails. Men like Wyatt Earp, James Butler Hickok, and Edward J. Masterson are profiled in this book.
Roy Bean, Law West of the Pecos by C. L. Sonnichsen. Roy Bean, ruffian, justice of the peace, and showman extraordinary, emerges from this book as neither sage nor clown, but possessing to an interesting degree the characteristics of both.
Six Years with the Texas Ranger, 1875-1881 by James B. Gillett. When James B. Gillett jointed the newly created Texas Rangers in 1875 (the organization had existed in some form for forty years, but the present force stems from the reorganization of 1874), its duties were as varied and its members as unorthodox as the methods were irregular. This is one of the best books ever written about this amazing law enforcement organization.
