Paul Cool was just that: cool. The coolest.  And that went beyond the Old West field. Oh, he was the coolest there, for sure.  Cool was an incredible researcher and writer, investigating law and order in the Southwest.  His book Salt Warriors: Insurgency on the Southwest Border is the analysis of the El Paso Salt War, a lesser known but historically important episode from 1877.  His many articles for the Wild West History Association (WWHA) prove his interest in and knowledge of so many top


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