Robert K Dearment: 8 books

Book cover of Deadly Dozen

Deadly Dozen

Twelve Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, Vol. 1

by Robert K. DeArment
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015

Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday—such are the legendary names that spring to mind when we think of the western gunfighter. But in the American West of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thousands of grassroots gunfighters straddled both sides of the law without hesitation....
Book cover of Deadly Dozen: Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West

Deadly Dozen: Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West

Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, Vol. 2

by Robert K. DeArment
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012

Think gunfighter, and Wyatt Earp or Billy the Kid may come to mind, but what of Jim Moon? Joel Fowler? Zack Light? A host of other figures helped forge the gunfighter persona, but their stories have been lost to time. In a sequel to his Deadly Dozen, celebrated western historian Robert K. DeArment...
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Gunfighter in Gotham

Bat Masterson's New York City Years

by Robert K. DeArment
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013

The legend of Bat Masterson as the heroic sheriff of Dodge City, Kansas, began in 1881 when an acquaintance duped a New York Sun reporter into writing Masterson up as a man-killing gunfighter. That he later moved to New York City to write a widely followed sports column for eighteen years is one of...
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Assault on the Deadwood Stage

Road Agents and Shotgun Messengers

by Robert K. DeArment
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012

In the 1870s, Deadwood was a thriving—and largely lawless—boomtown. And as any fan of western history and films knows, stagecoach robberies were a regular feature of life in this fabled region of Dakota Territory. Now, for the first time, Robert K. DeArment tells the story of the "good guys...
Book cover of Man-Hunters of the Old West
by Robert K. DeArment
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017

Settlers in the frontier West were often easy prey for criminals. Policing efforts were scattered at best and often amounted to vigilante retaliation. To create a semblance of order, freelance enforcers of the law known as man-hunters undertook the search for fugitives. These pursuers have often been...
Book cover of Man-Hunters of the Old West, Volume 2
by Robert K. DeArment
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018

Until the early twentieth century, life in the American West could be rough and sometimes vicious. Those who brought thieves and murderers to justice at times had to employ tactics as ruthless as their prey. In this follow-up to his first collection of biographies of the West’s most recognized man-hunters,...
Book cover of Deadly Dozen: Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West

Deadly Dozen: Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West

Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, Vol. 3

by Robert K. DeArment
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012

For every Wild Bill Hickok or Billy the Kid, there was another western gunfighter just as deadly but not as well known. Robert K. DeArment has earned a reputation as the premier researcher of unknown gunfighters, and here he offers twelve more portraits of men who weren’t glorified in legend but...
Book cover of Bat Masterson

Bat Masterson

The Man and the Legend

by Robert K. DeArment
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014

The colorful figures of the western American frontier, the Indian fighters, the mountain men, the outlaws, and the lawmen, have been romanticized for more than a hundred years by writers who found it easier to invent history than the research it. "Bat" Masterson was one such character who...
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