When Six-Guns Ruled: Outlaw Tales of the Southwest

by Marc Simmons

Book Overview

Twenty-seven intriguing vignettes, set throughout N.M., about some two dozen outlaws and lawmen, from the 1860s through "The Last Train Robbery" (by young NYC "drugstore cowboys") near Las Cruces in 1938. Well-known Southwest historian Simmons draws on historical, archival, and frontier newspaper sources to sketch the exploits of the notorious (Clay Allison, Vicente Silva, Black Jack Ketchum, Billy the Kid) and not-so-notorious (Joe Fowler, Capt...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0941270645
• ISBN13: 9780941270649
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Ancient City Press
• Length: 125 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Interesting Stories....Wild, Wild, New Mexico!!

This book has some cool stories.....A pretty easy read.....Told more like a narrative than an academic paper...Simmons writes well as usual....I didn't realize that New Mexico was so active in the outlaw community!!!!