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Death of a Gunfighter (Nonfiction)

by | Jan 28, 2009 | Western Books

 Dan Rottenberg, Westholme Publishing, $29.95, Hardcover.
Rottenberg is to be commended for rescuing Jack Slade from relative obscurity. Slade has, indeed, slipped through the cracks of history and into folklore, like Pecos Bill, despite being mentioned by Mark Twain in his book Roughing It. Slade belongs more to legend, and fiction, because of the many gaps in his biography. These, the author has mostly patched. When he f


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