Jon E. Lewis vividly depicts the pioneers, the onrush of the cattle barons, the coming of the lawmen and the tragic demise of the Plains Indians. Heroes and villains - including Sitting Bull, Doc Holliday, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Crazy Horse and Custer - are often revealed in startling new light, and a host of minor characters are rescued from obscurity. One, the Californian gunfighter Walter J. Crow, killed more men in "gunfights' than Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Jesse James and Wild Bill Hickok combined.

Wild West, Cowbows, American Indians