In more than 110 years, Emerson Hough's classic work on the desperadoes of the Wild West has never lost its power to excite the reader. Superbly written and researched, this work set the bar for true stories of the west. A friend of Pat Garrett, the sheriff who killed Billy the Kid, Hough spent years in the west and wrote extensively about the frontier. He was also an editor for George Bird Grinnell's "Field and Stream" magazine. From the famous to the not-so-famous, this book is filled with gritty, graphic, and outrageous true tales of a world long gone.