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An account of the outlaw gunfighters of the frontier American West, including the Clanton brothers, Billy the Kid, the James gang and the Dalton brothers.

True Grit tells the story of fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross. A coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. That's when Mattie fearlessly heads out to avenge her father's blood, convincing one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest U.S. marshal there is, to accompany her. But their plans run into an obstacle - namely, a Texas Ranger who is also investigating...

A fictionalized biography of John Henry "Doc" Holliday, the Arizona dentist who sided with Wyatt Earp in the gunfight at the OK Corral. He is portrayed as a sensitive man with a sardonic sense of humor, more complex than the simple gambler painted by history.

Doc Holiday's name is immediately recognizable, but what most people know of him is based on romanticized accounts played out in the movies. This 1957 biography unearths the real Holiday, who in truth was a gambler and shootist but also a respectable citizen devoted to his mother.

First published in 1962 and edited by Wilson Rockwell, Memoirs of a Lawman are “Doc” Shores' gripping, as previously unpublished memoirs, spanning his life from his early days on the Western frontier, his appointments as Sheriff, and later Federal Marshall.