State Historian of Texas Bill O’Neal’s latest book, John Chisum: Frontier Cattle King, explores the life and times of Chisum’s legendary role as a cattleman as well as providing a careful analysis of films made about the Western icon. Following his childhood in Tennessee, Chisum was always hunting new grounds for opportunity and the expa


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