Outlaws & Lawmen

Books are listed below in Alphabetic order.

$14.95 Paperbound 195 pages	The Banditti of the Plains or The Cattlemen's Invasion of Wyoming in 1892	The war took place in 1892, when Wyoming's cattle kings, faced with the loss of their ranges to homesteaders, decided to eliminate the small farmers and ranchers. Fifty-two cattlemen and hired gunmen from Texas and Idaho proceeded on their infamous invasion of Johnson county. The tables were turned when the homesteaders rallied behind the sheriff and besieged the cattlemen.
	A. S. Mercer

$12.95 Paperbound 227 pages	The Bassett Women	"The Bassett home gave refuge to a veritable who's who of western outlaws, among them Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and many lesser rustlers....What makes the book so delectable are the lovingly detailed scandals involving Brown's Park pioneers." True West
	Grace McClure

$19.95 Softbound 362 pages	Butch Cassidy: A Biography	Separating mythology from actual events in the life of Butch Cassidy has been made extremely difficult by the many stories told about him by family members, acquaintances, and writers after his presumed death in a Bolivian village. In an exhaustive search of reminiscences, newspapers, and books, Richard Patterson has written the definitive biography of the outlaw whose legend is rivaled only by that of Billy the Kid.
	Richard Patterson

$17.95 Paperbound 285 pages	Coyotes and Canaries: Characters Who Made the West Wild...and Wonderful	In this enlightening volume, Wyoming historian and storyteller Larry Brown gives us the low-down on numerous residents of the "Equality State," from famed saddle maker, Frank Meanea, to the notorious Tom Horn, to Wyoming's first black legislator, William Jefferson Hardin. An absolute must for any interested in Wyoming history.
	Larry K. Brown

$22.00 Softbound 408 pages	Digging Up Butch & Sundance	What a book? Hard-traveling historians on a quest. Romance! Altitude sickness! The driest desert in the World! Potentially deadly disputes over centuries-old bones! And finally, the answer to a ninety-year-old mystery.
	Anne Meadows

$14.95 Paperbound 249 pages	Dreamers & Schemers	The profiles of thirty-one personalities in this book offer snap shots of men and women whose behavior helped shape Carbon County. Some were good, law abiding citizens; a few were cold, ruthless outlaws. Journey back in time to an earlier century. Meet Jim Baker, Joe Rankin, Big Nose George, Lillian Heath and more.
	Lori Van Pelt

$11.00 Paperbound 77 pages	Esther Morris: First Woman Justice of the Peace	In 1969 Wyoming was the newest territory in the United States. It quickly became the first government in the world to grant women the right to vote and to hold public office. The following year, in February of 1870, Esther Morris became the first woman in the nation to hold judicial position.
	Lavinia Dobler

Out of Print Unavailable $9.95 Paperbound 100 pages	Harvey Logan: Wildest of the Wild Bunch	The wildest of the Wild Bunch --evil and treacherous--a cold-blooded murderer. These are just some of the words used to describe Harvey Logan, alias Kid Curry, an outlaw in the Old West of the late 1800's who was accused of killing nine men, participating in at least seven robberies, and escaping from jail twice.
	Donna B. Ernst

$12.00 Paperbound 339 pages	I, Tom Horn	The fictional autobiography of Tom Horn that answers decisively the question - did Tom Horn kill fourteen-year-old Willie Nickell, or was he framed?.
	Will Henry

$16.95 Paperbound 374 pages	The Outlaw Trail: A History of Butch Cassidy & His Wild Bunch	The Wild Bunch found sanctuary on the rugged Outlaw Trail. this trail offered desert and mountain hideouts to bandits and cowboys. The almost inaccessible Hole-in-the-Wall in Wyoming was a station on the Outlaw Trail, to the south, in Utah, was the inhospitable Robbers' Roost.
	Charles Kelly

$14.95 Softcover 230 pages	Outskirt Episodes	In rousing period style, Civil War veteran and frontiersman William G. Tittsworth tells the tales of the raw land of southwestern Wyoming in the late nineteenth century in his memoirs. The frontier characters, thought by many to be based on actual historical characters act out their dramas on the stage of early Sweetwater County history.
	William G. Tittsworth

$14.95 Paperbound 244 pages	Petticoat Prisoners of old Wyoming	This completes Brown's trilogy about the wicked days of early Wyoming with stories of twenty-three women who became guests at the Gray Bar Hotel.
	Larry K. Brown

$12.95 Paperbound 314 pages	The Romantic and Notorious History of Brown's Park	Brown's Park, on the Green River, lies partly in Utah and Colorado. It is astride the old Outlaw Trail, which ran from old Mexico and Arizona, through Wyoming, Montana, and into Alberta. Many outlaws passed through Brown's Park, including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
	Diana Allen Kouris

$19.95 Paperbound 379 pages	Tom Horn: Blood on the Moon	Tom Horn, the most notorious of Wyoming's range detectives, operated unchecked until he was arrested for the 1901 murder of the fourteen-year-old son of a sheep-raising settler. The murder and questionable nature of Horn's conviction still ignite firestorms of controversy among historians and Wyomingites in general.
	Chip Carlson

$14.95 Paperbound 224 pages	The Wild Bunch at Robber's Roost	In the 1890's the Wild Bunch spread over Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, and Arizona rustling cattle, stealing horses, robbing banks and trains, and often taking cover at Robbers Roost.
	Pearl Baker

$10.95 Paperbound 133 pages	Wild Bunch Women	Feisty Females of the Wild West: Explore the lives of the pistol-packing, hell-raising, high-spirited gals who traveled with Butch Cassidy's notorious Wild Bunch Gang. These women not only made the Wild Bunch's feats of derring-do possible, but also forged their own legends in the tumultuous American West.
	Michael Rutter

$24.95 Softcover 254 pages	Wind River Adventures: My Life in Frontier Wyoming	In this never-before-published historic memoir Ed Farlow recalls a life like no other - starting with his arrival as a teenager in Wyoming in the 1870's and continuing until 1931 when he was adopted into the Arapaho Nation. He recounts versions of famous events - the Custer Battle, a buffalo hunt with Indians, the Wilcox train robbery, the Battle of Crowheart Butte. And he recalls famous people - Sacajawea, the Hole-in-the-Wall gang, Chief Washakie, Joan Crawford, Cattle Kate and more.
	Edward J. Farlow

Out of Print Unavailable $9.95 Paperbound 104 pages	Women of the Wild Bunch	The Women of the Wild Bunch were beautiful; they were intriguingly bold; and they each loved an outlaw from the Old West. Read the biographies of Fanny Porter, Laura Bullion, Lillie Davis, Annie Rogers and Etta Place.
	Donna B. Ernst

$13.95 Paperbound 366 pages	The Wyoming Lynching of Cattle Kate 1889	The most blatant crime in the history of the West. They lynched Cattle Kate & Jim Averell. This story is so controversial that for over 100 years it was a mistake to even ask what happened that hot July afternoon in 1889 when a gracious young woman and an innocent homesteader were hanged from a pine tree in the Sweetwater Valley.
	George W. Hufsmith

$14.95 Paperbound 335 pages	Wyoming's Territorial Sherriffs	Most of the fifty-five men who pinned on stars were simply good citizens who carried out the routine duties of office. Some rose to the occasion when faced with adversity. Others arranged to be out of town.
	Ann Gorzalka

$11.95 Paperbound 187 pages	You Are Respectfully Invited to Attend My Execution	Badmen thrived in Wyoming Territory, but law and legal processes also existed. The frontier was so "civilized" that those men sentenced to hang were allowed to issue formal invitations to their executions.
	Larry K. Brown

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