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v i i Illustrations | ix Acknowledgments | xi Introduction | 1 Chapter One A Plain and Modest Beginning | 5 Chapter Two A Ten-Year Vanishing Act | 21 Chapter Three The McSweens Seek Their El Dorado | 36 Chapter Four Malice in the Land of Enchantment | 59 Chapter Five Throwing Down the Gauntlet | 78 Chapter Six The Lincoln County War | 102 Chapter Seven The Big Killing | 126 Contents v i i i Chapter Eight Beyond the Lincoln County War | 151 Chapter Nine New Mexico’s Cattle Queen | 168 Chapter Ten Retelling the Stories | 192 Chapter Eleven Out of Billy’s Shadow: A Legacy | 216 Abbreviations | 220 Notes | 222 Selected Bibliography | 275 Index | 289 ...

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