A Rough Ride to Redemption: The Ben Daniels Story

Dearment, Robert K. & DeMattos, Jack

ISBN 10: 0806141123 / ISBN 13: 9780806141121

Published by University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Ok, 2010

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BRAND NEW BOOK, NEVER USED! Number line in book reads as follows: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; therefore, I believe this is a first printing, first edition. Volume itself has gold and black covers with white lettering on the spine. Dust jacket is protected in an archival quality cover. Clean, fresh, tight and bright. A very nice new copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Rough Ride to Redemption: The Ben Daniels Story
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Ok
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806141123
• ISBN 13: 9780806141121
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition, 1st Printing
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

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Synopsis

He may be little known today, but Ben Daniels was a feared gunman who typified the journeyman gunfighter every bit as much as those whose names have become legend. Yet his story has eluded researchers and yarn-spinners alike—until now.

Two prominent western historians have teamed up to tell the story of Ben Daniels’s rise from outlaw and convict to presidential protégé and high-ranking officer of the law. Tracing his life from jailhouse to White House, from Dodge City to San Juan Hill, Robert DeArment and Jack DeMattos present a full-length biography of Daniels, the most controversial of Teddy Roosevelt’s “White House Gunfighters.”

The book faithfully traces Daniels’s early years, the time he spent in the Wyoming Territorial Penitentiary, his rebirth as a Dodge City lawman—including the controversy over his shooting a man in the back—and his part in the Battle of Cimarron. Following military service with the Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War, Daniels was appointed by President Roosevelt as U.S. marshal for turbulent Arizona Territory. Daniels was as quick with his mind as with a gun, but he had a rough ride to redemption.

This original biography belongs on the shelf of every gunfighter buff and anyone interested in the broader story of the Old West. It rescues Daniels from the footnotes of history and shows us the amazing life of one of the West’s most intriguing gunmen.

About the Authors

Robert K. DeArment (1925–2021) was a University of Toledo, Ohio, graduate whose research and writing focused on nineteenth-century American history, especially outlaws and law enforcement in the frontier West. He is the author of Bat Masterson: The Man and the Legend and the three-volume Deadly Dozen: Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West.

Jack DeMattos has authored and illustrated numerous articles and five books on western gunfighters, including Masterson and Roosevelt and Mysterious Gunfighter: The Story of Dave Mather.

William B. Secrest is the author of many books on western lawmen and outlaws, including The Man from the Rio Grande: A Biography of Harry Love, Leader of the California Rangers Who Tracked Down Joaguin Murrieta.