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Dallas Stoudenmire: El Paso Marshal (Western Frontier Library)

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Leon C. Metz was a great author and storyteller with unique writing humor. This book was based on true events. It was well researched and written. I have absolutely no doubts that Mr. Metz attempts to bring out favorable traits of Stoudenmire in order to help him gain much deserved respect and nationwide recognition. Stoudenmire enforced the laws no differently than Wyatt Earp, Pat Garrett and Elfego Baca. Stoudenmire deserves the same honor. Stoudenmire's period in this town was awfully short, but very colorful. Stoudenmire had no fear, not even guns or death. He was able to outdraw every opponent. He sent his wild bullets to harvest souls and sent men on their last jolting rides to the cemetery. His large structure and deadly reputation were all El Paso needed to send hard-cored violent outlaws whining and putting their tails between their shaking legs into hiding or digging their own graves. Stoudenmire's toughness and courage was no match for the outlaws combined together.

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This book is highly recommended for folks who seek excitement in Wild West justice and a wild marshal to match!

This book was well written and easy to understand. Mr. Metz has managed to make this book easy to understand and fun to read, but with much interest. His wordings were excellent; he used adjectives and even described persons or things with vivid colors. He has added some humors to it and it always kept my full attention.

The "4 Deads in 5 seconds" gunfight was the most thrilling. I felt as if I actually witnessed it all and witnessed folks scattered at the very sight of Marshal.

Hollywood should make a movie on Marshal Stoudenmire. I think he's worthy a movie such as it is for Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday in "Tombstone" and "Wyatt Earp".

lots of new information. Very well written and researched. very entertaining.

Well written and entertaining biography of one-time(late 19th century) El Paso Marshall Dallas Stoudenmire. Metz does a nice job of fleshing out just who Stoudenmire was, and the mammoth job responsibilities he faced, as well, as the numerous contraversies surrounding the man. It is a thrilling tale of a gun-slinger of the "old west", who is really lost to history. A virtual unknown compared to Hickock, Earp, Masterson, etc... Highly recommended to anyone with an interest in the history of the 19th century west, history of gunfighters of the same era, or Texas or frontier history. Fun, informative, and worth your time.

As one of the authors early works, this one isn't quite as well written as some of his later works, however the information contained within the book is valuable to the western history buff and historian. Mr. Metz gets 99% of the facts correct, and any deviation from factual information may be in my eyes, not in his writing/information. Stoudenmire was an interesting fellow, who came into one of the roughest towns in the old west, and made things peaceful as possible considering the lawless nature of the location (between Texas, New Mexico and Mexico) where outlaws could easily slip over one of the nearby borders. Stoudenmire also had to contend with the Texas Ranger contingent nearby, which at the time was not an easy task. Mr. Leon Metz is a highly respected author, and expert on El Paso history and this book should be in every western history buffs library.