The Troubled Life and Mysterious Death of Johnny Ringo

The Troubled Life and Mysterious Death of Johnny Ringo“This is the west, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” For no man does this famous line from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance apply more accurately than it does to Johnny Ringo. He is a man whose true story has been gravely misunderstood. He has been portrayed in movies as the heroic outlaw who was fast with a gun, and struck fear in the hearts of those who challenged his skill. To the early twentieth century writers, he was the anti-Earp gunman who led the cow-boy faction of southern Arizona. It was their purpose to devise a man who didn’t exist by altering history with the pen to create that which could not accomplished with a gun. For a century the myth was considered fact. In reality, Ringo was a man who led a tragic life, and died a mysterious death. Separating fact from fiction, Kevin Hogge has explored the life of John Peters Ringo as a field investigator to provide an accurate depiction of how he lived, and how he was murdered by a man no one ever suspected. With more than a decade on the case, Cold West Investigator Kevin Hogge has ridden on horseback through the Old West and traveled in the footsteps of men like Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Johnny Ringo. Join Kevin now as he takes you back in time to experience life in the Old West like never before.ABOUT THE AUTHORKevin Hogge is an old west enthusiast who has ridden the trails of Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Charlie Goodnight, and Col. Ranald Mackenzie. He is part of an elite group of riders and historians who have ridden the back country of Southern Arizona, following the trail of Wyatt Earp and his Vendetta Posse in search of the men who killed his brother, Morgan Earp. He has ridden the trails of Billy the Kid through the mountains of Lincoln New Mexico, where no one had been for a century. With a hard riding group of friends, and horsemen, he has run New Mexico's tough and historic terrain from Santa Fe's Copper Canyon, to the Sangre de Christo Mountains. Add the Palo Duro Canyons in Amarillo Texas where Col. Mackenzie led the final battle to defeat the Comanche, and the Kiowa, he has touched history in a manner which few people have ever attempted.