I finish this book with a renewed appreciation of why people became outlaws in the old west. While pirates had a multitude of exotic locales to live their lives in the people of the old west were pretty much stuck with working cattle, farming, working in stores, mining, (stop me when I get to one...
I really enjoyed Gardner's earlier effort on Billy the Kid, and figured I'd go back to Outlaw Country and read some more. I might have liked this effort even more, but that's at least in part fueled by the subject. Billy, wild young man that he was, doesn't, to my mind, have the lethal and calc...
—J. A. WOODWARD SINCE HIS BRIEF STINT as Billy the Kid’s attorney in 1881, Albert Jennings Fountain had solidified his power and influence in southern New Mexico Territory. The fiery Republican had served in the territorial legislature as Speaker of the House. He had chased raiding Apache warrior...