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List of Illustrations vii Preface and Acknowledgments ix 1 Meet the Gang 3 2 “I Could Kill a Buzzard a-Flying” 16 3 Vagrant Years 27 4 Will, Laura, and Ben; The Course of True Love? 40 5 Three Murders and a Dead Ringer 56 6 Easy Money and Hard Riding 71 7 Crossed Trails 90 8 The Steins Pass Imbroglio 102 9 Framed 110 10 Dynamite and Six-shooter 133 11 Separate Ways 154 12 Another Incident at Twin Mountains 162 13 Bullets in Turkey Creek Canyon 169 14 The Sixteenth of August 193 15 Dead to Rights 212 16 Points of Law 222 17 Atkins Saddles the Ocean 247 18 An Anniversary for George Scarborough 256 19 Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid . . . and Will Carver 271 + CONTENTS ∂ v 20 “Before He Could Cock His Pistol” 279 21 Off With His Head 298 22 Empty Saddles and Lonely Graves 315 23 Myth, Mistake, and Muddle 344 One Dead Mexican 344 “They Got John Legg” 348 The Identity of G.W. Franks 349 NOTES 355 Bibliographical Essay 355 Bibliography 465 Index 481 vi Contents ...