The Gunfighters: True Tales of Outlaws Lawmen and Indians on the Texas Frontier

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The early Texans were a breed apart. Outlaws and lawmen ranchers and cowpokes merchants and preachers housewives and harlots--all were hard-working independent tough people of the frontier. In The Gunfighters legendary U.S. Border Patrol agent pistol shooter and big-game hunter Col. Charles Askins brings hundreds of the colorful characters of early Texas vividly to life--McNellys Rangers; "The Merry Outlaw" Sam Bass; Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker and the Texas Ranger who caught them Capt. Frank Hamer; the first Border Patrolmen; Comanche and Apache Indians; and many others