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Title: Gunfighters, Highwaymen, and Vigilantes: Violence on the Frontier by Roger D. McGrath ISBN: 0-520-06026-1 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: April, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: The Real Real West
Comment: This book opened my eyes to what life on the western frontier was really like. Forget current media fictionalizations, the frontier was not a shooting gallery. No handsome stranger rides into to town to save the cowering inhabitants from evil. The crooks and crooked politics are all there, just like they are today. The sheriff was not always the stalwart defender of the law, in fact he sometimes had business interests to protect.

McGrath offers a carefully documented narrative of the day to day goings on during the gold rush. The data is from public records and the fill-in is from newspaper archives. A detailed yet readable account of frontier life. Far better than any cowboy novel, this is the real west.

Steve Hurst

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