A lively collection of true tales of villainy and violence during the California Gold Rush"Boessenecker has done as much as anyone to change and illuminate California's Wild West image . . . if you wo
One of the great lawmen of the Old West, Bob Paul (1830–1901) cast a giant shadow across the frontiers of California and Arizona Territory for nearly fifty years. Today he is remembered mainly f
The true stories of the Wild West heroes who guarded the iconic Wells Fargo stagecoaches and trains, battling colorful thieves, vicious highwaymen, and robbers armed with explosives.The phrase "riding
The New York Times Best Seller!“Frank Hamer, last of the old breed of Texas Rangers, has not fared well in history or popular culture. John Boessenecker now restores this incredible Ranger to his prop
To most Americans, Frank Hamer is the "villain" in the 1967 film Bonnie & Clyde.In Texas Ranger, historian John Boessenecker argues that Hamer was in fact a classic American hero. His ca
Tiburcio Vasquez is, next to Joaquin Murrieta, America's most infamous Hispanic bandit. After he was hanged as a murderer in 1875, the Chicago Tribune called him "the most noted desperado of modern ti
This is the first full-length biography of the adventurous life of Old West lawman Bob Paul (1830-1901), who battled lynch mobs, captured train robbers, and fought in the showdown at the OK Corral. Bo
Harry Morse - gunfighter, manhunter, and sleuth - was among the West’s most famous lawmen. Elected sheriff of Alameda County, California, in 1864, he went on to become San Francisco’s foremost private
The picturesque vineyards of California’s Napa Valley, one of the world’s premier tourist destinations, disguise a tangled history of lawlessness, depravity and frontier justice. Some crimes were comm
