Age of the Gunfighter Men and Weapons on the Frontier 1840-1900

Based upon contemporary and informed opinion, Age of the Gunfightertells of a tempestuous time and many a notorious gunfighter. Few of those who achieved fame and a reputation lived into old age. Ed Masterson, Tom Smith, and Bill Tilghman, for example, died in the line of duty. Others, like Wild Bill Hickok, Jesse James, and Billy the Kid, were murdered because of their reputations, at the hands of the law or for personal or financial gain. And the few who survived into old age in the twentieth century, such as Wyatt Earp, were men out of place and time, steeped in nostalgia for an era gone but immortalized as the age of the gunfighter.Rosa, Joseph G. is the author of 'Age of the Gunfighter Men and Weapons on the Frontier 1840-1900' with ISBN 9780806127613 and ISBN 0806127619.