Buy this book on-line SCHAEFER,JACK**: : HEROES WITHOUT GLORY:SOME GOODMEN OF THE OLD WEST.**LONDON.ANDRE DEUTSCH,1966.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG+.No owner inscrptn, no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour photographic upper wrap, b/w author portrait photograph to rear wrap with minimal shelf-wear and creasing to dw/dj edges.Miniscule bumping and creasing to head of spine/backstrip.Top edge coloured and lightly dust-soiled, fore-edge slightly aged and spotted, contents bright,tight and clean.Brown paper-covered bds with stamped,bright gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain white eps.8vo,vi-xix+2-323pp includes intro.
Truth reads better than fiction,when written by Jack Schaefer.He has turned his incomparable gift as a story-teller to good account in this collection of true tales of the 'goodmen'(10) of the American West.Too much has been made of the
'badmen',he says.Billy the Kid,Butch Cassidy and the rest have been glamourized far beyond the often
sordid truth:here we have men of tremendous character who have turned their own particular abilities to the service or entertainment of their fellow men - often in highly eccentric ways - and the result is a gallery of personalities as rich as only Jack Schaefer can portray.Here is 'Grizzly'
Adams, with his fantastic urge to collect grizzlies for his menagerie - some of them followed him like dogs,without chains or leashes; or 'Snowshoe' Thompson,who made himself the first pair of skis seen in America to carry a regular mail service over the High Sierras in winter;or Elfego Baca,freelance Mexican lawyer,quick with wits and gun to defend his clients;or Bear River Tom Smith himself,who cleaned up Abilene in the teeth of the toughest men of Texas.They all had a job to do, and they saw it through.Others written about include:George Augustus Frederick Ruxton, Johh Phillips, Wash-A-Kie, John Simpson Chisum, Thomas J. Smith, Valentine T.O. McGillycuddy, and Charles Fox Gardiner.
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