I love reading about the old West and the individuals who lived back then. Mostly I like reading the truth which Hollywood and TV screenwriters are apparently paid to ignore. But I admit my favorite TV shows---before abandoning TV over 40 years ago---all had a Western theme. Hopalong Cassidy and Cheyenne Bodie were my heroes.
This book was well researched. When the author mentions a man or woman's name or a town, he also adds information about them I found fascinating. I was surprised so many people, on both sides of the law, were related in some way, not always biologically but in some relationship. The Daltons were especially interesting. Some started out as lawmen and ended up as outlaws, mostly dead outlaws.
I want to share just one piece of trivia. The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral ended with three dead men and three wounded men. The September 1, 1893, gunfight at Ingalls, Oklahoma was bloodier, with six men killed or wounded, and the wounded died soon after. And a lot more on both sides died in the Dalton gang's disasterous robbery attempt on October 5, 1892, in Coffeyville, Kansas.
Ingalls was named after John Ingalls, a senator for Kansas. In a footnote the author let us know John Ingalls second cousin was Charles Ingalls whose daughter Laura Ingalls Wilder was the author of the "Little House on the Prairie" series.
Whether within the text, or in footnotes on the same page, the author keeps you interested in his story.
This book was well researched. When the author mentions a man or woman's name or a town, he also adds information about them I found fascinating. I was surprised so many people, on both sides of the law, were related in some way, not always biologically but in some relationship. The Daltons were especially interesting. Some started out as lawmen and ended up as outlaws, mostly dead outlaws.
I want to share just one piece of trivia. The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral ended with three dead men and three wounded men. The September 1, 1893, gunfight at Ingalls, Oklahoma was bloodier, with six men killed or wounded, and the wounded died soon after. And a lot more on both sides died in the Dalton gang's disasterous robbery attempt on October 5, 1892, in Coffeyville, Kansas.
Ingalls was named after John Ingalls, a senator for Kansas. In a footnote the author let us know John Ingalls second cousin was Charles Ingalls whose daughter Laura Ingalls Wilder was the author of the "Little House on the Prairie" series.
Whether within the text, or in footnotes on the same page, the author keeps you interested in his story.
