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Title: Gunsmoke in Lincoln County (Outlaw-Lawman Research Series, V. 2) by Philip J. Rasch, Frederick Nolan, Robert K. Dearment ISBN: 0-935269-24-X Publisher: True West Pub Llc Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $29.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: Pioneer shows bias
Comment: Rasch was clearly a dogged researcher and a pioneer in many avenues of researching and writing on the Lincoln County troubles. Unfortunately, this collection of his Brand Book essays, valuable as it is, shows his blind spot - a bias against the McSweens, Tunstall, and Billy, that sours his evaluations and his prose.

His writing is competent and engaging, though the collection over several decades has a lot of repetition (sometimes showing that Rasch CAN learn and re-evaluate) that becomes tiresome. Without having done any research on the author, I would guess he fawns on military types (Dudley, in this case) and the Texas Rangers, and dislikes the rebel type and lawyers in general (McSween, Chapman, Leonard).

Without the evident bias, I'd rate this a 5, but the sarcasm and slant is ultimately fatal. If you want to cover the bases, you need these volumes, but take them with a large dose of sodium cloride.