Draw: The Greatest Gunfights of the American West
Author: James Reasoner
Publisher: Berkley Trade (2003)

Praised for his "well-researched" (Booklist) and "lively, suspenseful" (Publishers Weekly) novels, James Reasoner now proves that truth can be even more exciting than fiction. Known for his ability to make history come vividly to life, Reasoner strips away the dime-store legends and Hollywood myths to show us how the gunfighters of the Old West really lived, killed-and were killed. Among the true stories he brings us:

*Doc Holliday's Last Gunfight * The Last Dalton Raid * The End of the Notorious John Wesley Hardin * Wild Bill's Tragic Mistake * The End of an Earp * Gunfight at Stone Corral * The Doolin Bunch vs. the U.S. Marshals * Rourke's Bad Luck Robbery €* Shoot-out at the Tuttle Dance Hall * Wichita's New Year's Day Gunfight * Bat Masterson and the Battle of the Plaza * The Sam Bass Gang's Luck Runs Out * The Long Branch Saloon's Spectacular Fray * Ben Thompson and the Vaudeville Ambush * The Man Who Killed the Man Who Killed Jesse James * and more...

These are the shootouts and showdowns that gave the Wild West its name...recounted here with gritty accuracy, colorful detail, and all the drama of life-and death-on the frontier.

 

About the Author:
James Reasoner is the author of the Spur Award-nominated novels Cossack Three Ponies and Under Outlaw Flags, both published by Berkley Books, as well as the Civil War Battles series and The Last Good War, a series of novels about World War II. A professional writer for more than twenty-five years, he has written everything from mysteries to science fiction and fantasy. As a life long Texan, he has a deep and abiding interest in the West and its history. He lives in a small town with his wife Livia, also known as the award-winning mystery and Western novelist L.J. Washburn, and their two daughters. Draw is his first work of nonfiction.

 

Paperback. 320 pages.

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