Between WWI and II, writers such as Stuart Lake and Walter Noble Burns penned popular, but careless, studies of Western outlaws and lawmen. They did not worry about errors and even fictionalized their narratives to make a good story “better.” A remarkably different class of writers emerged after WWII; authors who researched the careers of frontier peace officers and badmen with the zeal of fusty academic archivists, yet with a resultant prose of great readability. Secrest’s latest book
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