An admirable and very informing book done by an Army officer who was also a sportsman and a close observer of the conditions of the life about him.

One of the standard books for any library of early Western literature.
EMERSON HOUGH, "The Story of the Outlaw," 1907.

A study of the Western desperado, with historical narratives of famous outlaws, stories of noted border movements, Vigilante activities, and armed conflicts on the border.
NATHANIEL PITT LANGFORD, "Vigilante Days and Ways," 1893.

A storehouse of information done in graphic anecdotal fashion of the scenes in the early mining camps of Idaho and Montana.

Valuable as the work of a contemporary writer who took part in the scenes he describes.
JOHN C.VAN TRAMP, "Prairie and Rocky Mountain Adventures or Life in the West," 1870.