<p>Step back in time with <i>Six-Guns and Single-Jacks</i> as Bob Alexander colorfully recounts tales of the violence and lawlessness that made Silver City and Old Grant County, New Mexico, one of the most dangerous places in the Southwest. Silver City's history, previously known only to a small cadre of Western enthusiasts, comes to life in the form of a violent cultural collision. There, settlers and Apache struggled for control of this rugged mountain haven, while later the likes of Billy the Kid used it as a launching pad for a lifetime of crime. Alexander has synthesized his years of researching and writing about this corner of the Old West into a comprehensive history of those colorful pre-statehood days, illustrated with more than 80 rare historic photos that Alexander ferreted out from a wide variety of sources.</p>

Six-Guns and Single Jacks: A History of Silver City and Southwestern New Mexico

History

Bob Alexander

Americas

Gila Books

Step back in time with Six-Guns and Single-Jacks as Bob Alexander colorfully recounts tales of the violence and lawlessness that made Silver City and Old Grant County, New Mexico, one of the most dangerous places in the Southwest. Silver City's history, previously known only to a small cadre of Western enthusiasts, comes to life in the form of a violent cultural collision. There, settlers and Apache struggled for control of this rugged mountain haven, while later the likes of Billy the Kid used it as a launching pad for a lifetime of crime. Alexander has synthesized his years of researching and writing about this corner of the Old West into a comprehensive history of those colorful pre-statehood days, illustrated with more than 80 rare historic photos that Alexander ferreted out from a wide variety of sources.

Six-Guns and Single-Jacks: A History of Silver City and Southwestern New Mexico

Desert Desperadoes

In Desert Desperadoes, subtitled "The Banditti of Southwestern New Mexico," award-winning author Bob Alexander looks at the outlaws and infamous badmen--"banditti," as early Las Cruces/Mesilla notable Albert Jennings Fountain dubbed them--throughout this corner of the state. It traces their bloody trails across Las Cruces and the Mesilla Valley, Silver City and Grant County, Deming and Columbus, Lordsburg and Shakespeare, into the Gila and even to El Paso and southeastern Arizona (including Tombstone), when New Mexico outlaws learned their violent trade or sought refuge from pursuing posses there. Besides such well-known "desperadoes" as Billy the Kid and Johnny Ringo, the book colorfully recounts the careers of characters including "Bronco Bill" Walters, "Curly Bill" Brocius, Kit Joy, "Three-Fingered Jack" Dunlap, Pony Diehl, "Black Jack" Christian, "Six-Shooter Smith" and John Kinney, "King of the Rustlers." Among those seeking to bring the book's "banditti" to justice are Pat Garrett, "Dangerous Dan" Tucker, Harvey Whitehill and Fountain himself. Readers will also encounter such famous Wild West characters as Wyatt Earp and his brothers, the Clantons and "Doc" Holliday, as well as the Texas Rangers. Although written with the verve of a campfire storyteller, Desert Desperadoes is meticulously researched and documented, written by one of the most renowned historians of the Old West. Besides Alexander's lively prose, Desert Desperadoes also contains more than 80 rare historical photographs, many of them never before published. The cover painting is by noted Western artist Donald Yena.

In Desert Desperadoes, subtitled "The Banditti of Southwestern New Mexico," award-winning author Bob Alexander looks at the outlaws and infamous badmen--"banditti," as early Las Cruces/Mesilla notable Albert Jennings Fountain dubbed them--throughout this corner of the state. The book traces their bloody trails across Las Cruces and the Mesilla Valley,Silver City and Grant County, Deming and Columbus, Lordsburg and Shakespeare, into the Gila and even to El Paso and southeastern Arizona (including Tombstone), when New Mexico outlaws learned their violent trade or sought refuge from pursuing posses. Besides such well-known "desperadoes" as Billy the Kid and Johnny Ringo, the Desert Desperadoes colorfully recounts the careers of characters including "Bronco Bill" Walters, "Curly Bill" Brocius, Kit Joy, "Three-Fingered Jack" Dunlap, Pony Diehl, "Black Jack" Christian, "Six-Shooter Smith" and John Kinney, "King of the Rustlers." Among those seeking to bring the book's "banditti" to justice are Pat Garrett, "Dangerous Dan" Tucker, Harvey Whitehill and Fountain himself. Readers will also encounter such famous Wild West characters as Wyatt Earp and his brothers, the Clantons and "Doc" Holliday, as well as the Texas Rangers. Although written with the verve of a campfire storyteller, Desert Desperadoes is meticulously researched and documented, written by one of the most renowned historians of the Old West. Besides Alexander's lively prose, the book contains more than 80 rare historical photographs, many of them never before published.  The cover painting is by noted Western artist Donald Yena.

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Six-Guns and Single Jacks: A History of Silver City and Southwestern New Mexico

Six-Guns and Single-Jacks: A History of Silver City and Southwestern New Mexico

Desert Desperadoes

Desert Desperadoes