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The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado

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This is the wild west at its worst- men who would do any immoral act for profit, or just for fun. At times their actions caused county-wide wars to break out during which dozens of men were killed. You'll read amazing stories in this book. There are chapters on Hickok, Plummer, Slade and Helm. The author was there at the time, and he quotes people who give first-hand accounts.

Emerson Hough was a great Iowa writer who wrote about his own times, those of the Wild West! He keeps to the bare facts and was trying not to embellish his accounts of the outlaws. Even so, these stories are very vivid and colorful. I enjoy Hough's personal input on the subject of law and order (he thought the law, in his day, was ill-equipped to handle the "bad men") and it is interesting that he rode with Pat Garrett and others. I recommend this book to any western fan.

My dad enjoyed the book. And, he LOVES the Kindle. He reads it without his glasses on and is thrilled with the text sizes. He is very much into history, and read the book all day every day for three days. The buttons on the kindle are really in bad places. Several times he inadvertantly pressed the button and I had to get him back to the page he was reading. Now, question is, do I give him my one year old Kindle and buy me the upgraded one, or do I keep mine and buy him one????