Jack Longstreet: Last of the Desert Frontiersman

Jack Longstreets life was a genuine frontier saga entwined with the history of one of the harshest regions in the American West. He first appeared in northern Arizona in 1880 a mysterious stranger who carried a notched gun and wore his hair long to conceal the scars of a severed ear. For the next half century Longstreet roamed the deserts of Nevada and Arizona as a prospector rancher saloonkeeper trailblazer and hired gun. Disliked and feared by the powerful ranching and mining interests Longstreet found friendship among the Southern Paiute Indians who came to regard him as a leader. He learned their language married a series of Indian women and defended the Paiutes against exploitation. Originally published in 1988 Jack Longstreet traces the life of a hardbitten gunman-rancher-prospector who stubbornly lived life exactly as he pleased.