Triggernometry, A Gallery of Gunfighters. With Technical Notes on Leather Slapping as a Fine Art.

Cloth, very good. Foreword by Eugene Manlove Rhodes. First edition. Adams One-Fifty 42. Guns 530: Scarce in 1st edition. This book has become a standard work and is reliable on most points. The author also corrects the legend about Wild Bill Hickok s fight with McCanles.He credits (Billy) the Kid with killing Morton and Baker, but admits that the whole gang was shooting at Carlyle when he tried to escape. He only credits the Kid with killing eight men.He agrees that Wyatt Earp never arrested Ben Thompson in Ellsworth and says that in all his research he has never found any evidence for it. Neither have I, except in Lake s account, and in those of writers who have since followed Lake blindly. Greene, Fifty Best Books on Texas : despite that trivial sounding title is a reliable, excellent book. Dobie p. 141: Excellent survey of codes and characters. Written by a man of intelligence and knowledge. Howes C954. Graff 951.