Publisher's Synopsis
Bad Asses of the Old West
They didn't follow the rules. They wrote their own.
And they did it with six-shooters, bowie knives, and the kind of hard-eyed resolve only the frontier could forge.
Bad Asses of the Old West is a blood-and-dust ride through the true stories of the most legendary figures to ever stalk the plains, deserts, and boomtowns of 19th-century America. These are the real men and women who earned their reputations the hard way-through gunfights, manhunts, jailbreaks, ambushes, and stand-offs where only one side walked away.
Inside, you'll meet Wyatt Earp, the reluctant lawman with a shotgun sense of justice. Doc Holliday, the gambler dying by inches who never backed down. Bass Reeves, the former slave turned relentless deputy who brought outlaws in by the hundreds. Geronimo, the warrior who defied an empire. And Jim Bowie, who fought with a blade so fierce they named it after him-and died with it at the Alamo.
These aren't bedtime stories. They're the unvarnished, bullet-scarred, whiskey-soaked truths behind the faces carved into Western legend.
The West wasn't won by saints. It was taken by bad asses.