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Luke Short: A Biography of one of the Old West's Most Colorful Gamblers and Gunfighters

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This book is a great read for anyone interested in the life and times of one of the more colorful characters in the western expansion era. I enjoyed and learned of Luke Short and how his life interacted and effected some of the other well known characters of the time. I wish this author knew others of the same era as well, that he might write of them as well. Hated to see this book come to an end.

I loved this book! The author totally draws you in and fills this book with such anecdotes, facts, speculations, and often subtle humor that you cannot put it down. I was eager to read this book and learn more about a less-known famous figure from the Old West, and have also read Short's other books. I heartily reccomend all of them to anyone who enjoys humorous non-fiction as well as nondisputable facts. Short has the cunning wit of an intellectual and the story telling gift of a grandfather.

Wayne Short did his Great Uncle justice in this book while at the same time telling a full and complete story of Luke's life on the Western Frontier and his time as a gambler in the saloon's and mining camps of the Old West.

Luke Short is one of those guys that was overshadowed by the likes of Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson but he was their equal in all aspects and their friend. This is a great book and a great story that needs to be told on the Silver Screen.

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