Desert Desperadoes. The Banditti Of Southwestern New Mexico.

BOB ALEXANDER

Publication: Gila Books, 2006, SILVER CITY

First edition. 8vo. Signed by the author on the title page. Limited edition of 500 copies. Cloth, orange stamping on front cover and spine, 334 pp., introduction, preface and acknowledgments, illustrated, plates, portraits, maps, endnotes, bibliography, index. Introduction by David Johnson. Tells of the early-day outlaws and gunmen of Southwestern New Mexico. Some of the characters presented whom the author considers operated "outside the law" were: John Kinney, Bronco Bill Walters, Kit Joy, Six-Shooter Smith, Three-Fingered Jack Dunlap, Pony Diehl, Tom Bowe, James Brooks, George W. Musgrave, Robert "Dutch" Martin, Kid Johnson, T. C. Hillard, Sherman McMasters, Hair-Trigger Johnnie, Billy the Kid, "Old Man" Clanton, John Ringo, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Curly Bill Brocius, Black Jack Christian, and Black Jack Ketchum. Uncovers much new information on many of desperadoes that are discussed. In addition are more than 80 rare historical photographs, many of them never before published. As new, in dust jacket.

Inventory Number: 52572