The Gunfighters: James Horan's Authentic Wild West

by James D. Horan

Book Overview

Period photographs and documents, along with eyewitness accounts and personal reminiscences, present a fascinating journey into the Old West, offering portraits of the frontier's most famous--and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517118556
• ISBN13: 9780517118559
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Gramercy Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.7" x 11.2"

Customer Reviews

Must have if you want the TRUTH on the Old West.

Few books on the "Wild West" go into as much detail on specific characters as these sets of books do ( there are two others: the Lawmen and the Outlaws). This book is filled with accounts by eyewitnesses and the Gunfighters themselves. Although sometimes I find these books 'dry', they are incredible references. Filled with newspaper reports of the day, excerpts from courtroom documents and plenty of asides from the gunfighters themselves as well as the people who knew them ( parents, friends, enemies and lovers ), they are lavishly illustrated, well documented and completely annotated with sources AND bibliography of about every quote in the book. This enables you to understand where EVERY source comes from. One of the most complete references that I have ever seen on the subject. If this subject interests you then this is a must have book for your library.