Gunfighters by Col. Charles Askins (hardcover) 1981

Description: The frontier was a boisterous place, inhabited by a hard riding, rough breed of men who made their own destinies as the big country was settled. These frontiersmen were open, generous, and hospitable in the main, but there was a streak of ruthlessness in them all, brought out by the hard life they led. Some were downright mean. The hardest element of frontier society was the gunfighter. Many were wanted in other parts of the Union, and all were eager to be swallowed up in the freedom of the frontier. These free-wheeling wanderers, gamblers, gunslingers, and lawmen, frolicked and fought their way into the pages of history. It was evident the breed who were building the West were doing it on anything save idleness. Many had migrated from the plantation culture of the Old South but the past was behind them. This was Western aristocracy amaking, a horny handed gentry whose culture was the free and open kind, kindled at the tailgate of the chuckwagon, cemented in the dregs of tin-cup whiskey and the flaming mouth of six shooter and Winchester. The lusty beginning of this frontier culture has rendered it pretty much immune to the debilitating influence of too much cultivation and refinement which have done such immeasurable harm to the American fiber in past decades. A frontiersman depended on himself, his sixshooter and a fast horse, a man's word was his bond and broken promises brought swift retribution. Life was good, but troubled; folks slept fitfully, a pistol under the pillow, and a rifle in the corner. This is the story of those times and afterwards…(from foreword).

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