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octoberStagecoach and bank robbers,gunfighters, and outlaws fill thiscollection of fun stories of the Wild,Wild WestThe OutlawsTales of Bad Guys Who Shaped the Wild WestRobert Barr Smith978-0-7627-9135-4 ■ October 2013$18.95 US/$20.95 CAN ■ World ■ Paper6 x 9 ■ 256 pp ■ 24/CTNb&w photographs throughout ■ TwoDotHISTORYThe people who pushed west were mostly ordinary folks, the guts of the young United States, tough, ambitious, hardworking,and anxious to leave the world better for their kids than it had been for them. Those who did not come of that hardy stockdid not last. With them came the trouble-makers, to everybody’s sorrow. Some of them were already running from the lawsomeplace else. Others were simply dishonest, looking for a time and place to blossom into full-blown hoodlums. Some ofthe young people emulated them: There was some illusory swagger in being a hoodlum, witness the nicknames they carriedaround . . . many of which they had invented themselves, a sort of phony glory.This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West’s most egregiously bad bad guys caught in the act ofmayhem, distraction, murder, and highway robbery, includes famous names like the Dalton gang, lesser known bandits likeKaiser Bill Goodman, and many more. The book will include archival illustrations and photographs of the shady charactersand the scenes of their crimes.44Robert Barr Smith is a law professor at the University of Oklahoma and a retired colonel, US Army. Heis the author of four books and nearly 100 articles of western and military history. A senior parachutist, heserved in Vietnam, Germany, and all across the United States. A frequent lecturer on the West, he lives inNorman, Oklahoma.$21.95 / Canadian $23.95