181pp. Illus. in text. Light foxing to fore-edge. An informal history of the last legendary frontier of the Old West, told by the former editor-in-chief of Harper's Magazine who was born and grew up in the region. Based on the stories and sayings of his kinfolk and other old-timers, he says they are mostly true tales that have been checked wherever possible. Stories of Colonel Charles Goodnight; Geronimo; Billy the Kid - a sometime resident of Tascosa, the one place on the Plains that lived up to the region's reputation for violence!. Well illustrated with drawings by Paul Laune.

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