These are books formerly featured as one of our books of the indeterminate interval of the time continuum. They are titles we recommend and which you should seriously consider if you are interested in the topic.

On May 11, 1889, the crack of gunfire split the midday quiet in a remote corner of southeastern Arizona, not far from the tiny Mormon settlement of Pima. From behind fortifications overlooking the Fort Grant - Fort Thomas road, at a place known locally as "Bloody Run," a band of highwaymen ambushed army paymaster Major Joseph Washington Wham and his buffalo soldier escort. Following a hardfought battle, the bandits made off with more than $28,000. The money was never recovered. Eight of the twelve-man escort were wounded in the spirited defense of the army payroll. Congress rewarded the solders' heroism with two medals of honor and eight certificates of commendation. The arrest and sensational trial in Tucson of seven suspects in the daring paymaster heist focused national attention on Arizona Territory as it struggled to shed its unsavory reputation for lawlessness and violence.

In this engrossing and meticulously documented study, Larry Ball draws on a wealth of new research - including interviews and the previously undiscovered trial transcript - to separate fact from legend in describing an event that pitted white against black, Gentile against Mormons, Democrat against Republican, lawman against outlaw, and neighbor against neighbor in a region chafing under federal control. It is a dramatic and intensely human story that provides unparalleled insight into race, religion, politics, banditry, and justice in the late-nineteenth-century Southwest.

Tales of mystery, danger, humor, and irony. New information! Over a decade of research by the author and more than 50 years cumilative research by his partners and him includes:

• Lost histories of Phoenix, early Arizona, and its pioneers
• The only ore analysis of the Dutchman gold
• Never before published photographs, including many prominent pioneers
• Clues and sites cross-referenced to the Hiker's Guide to the Superstition Wilderness
• Over 30 maps, many never before published
• Geology of the Superstition Mountains
• Includes Notes, Sources, and Further Readings.

Tombstone A.T. - A History of Early Mining, Milling and Mayhem
ByWilliam B. Shillingberg
400 pages
First Edition (1999) SOLD OUT

Books of the IIOTC

Legends and Lies - Great Mysteries of the American West
By Dale L. Walker
318 pages
First Edition (1997)

Dale Walker examines in a lively, humorous and rational manner, some of the West's greatest puzzles. In Legends and Lies Walker analyzes a dozen of the most interesting enigmas of the American West, including

John Plesent Gray, upon graduation from the universiry of California (Berkley) in 1880, joined his family in Tombstone, Arizona. Sixty years later he deposited a typewritten manuscript with the Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society ( now the Arizona Historical Society) telling of life in the beginning days of Tombstone and Arizona. This valuable manuscript chronicles his eyewitness account of the shootout at the OK Corral, cattle ranching in Apache territory, and the vivid descriptions of the people who lived in this wild and rugged place and the towns that grew as they came. Among Gray's writings, "I was in Tombstone on the afternoon that the Earps, in their official capacity as peace oficers, engineered the killing of Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers"

Wyatt Earp - The Life Behind the Legend
By Casey Tefertiller
403 pages
First Edition (1997)

Based on recently discoverd material, including newspapers believed to have been lost as well as personal accounts from Earp's firends, enemies and acquaintences, this definitive biography paints a superbly balanced portrait of the man who helped shape the modern view of the Old West. A rich panorama of nineteenth-century American culture and politics, Wyatt Earp brings a fresh perspective to the life of a common man of uncommon courage, whose ultimate wish was to live a quiet life.

A Spider for Loco Shoat - A Novel
By Douglas C. Jones
305 pages
First Edition (1997)

The Private Journal of George Whitwell Parsons:The Tombstone Years 1879-1887
Edited by Carl Chafin
433 pages, wraps
First Edition (1997)

John Ringo
by David Johnson
263 pages, photos
First Edition (1996)

Few names in the lore of western gunmen are as recognizable. Few lives of the most notorious are as little known. Romanticized, made legendry, John Ringo fought for what he believed right. A descendant of colonial Dutch Americans, a native of Indiana, a childhood witness of the ruthless border conflicts of the Civil War, a teenaged Ringo was rushed into sudden adulthood when his father died tragically in the midst of the family's overland trek to California. As a young man he became embroiled in the blood feud turbulence of Reconstruction Texas. The reputation he earned there proceeded him to Tombstone, where factionalized violence of territorial Arizona thrust him into further conflict. A leader of one of these elements, the Cowboys, Ringo ran at bloody, tragic odds with the Earps and Doc Holliday. He died mysteriously in the Arizona desert, his death welcomed by some, mourned by others, wrongly claimed by a few

And Die in the West
by Paula Mitchell Marks
Softbound

The gunfight a the O.K. Corral has exited the imagination of Western enthusiasts ever since that chilly October afternoon in 1881 Doc Holiday. and Virgil, Morgan and Wyatt Earp strode along a Tombstone, Arizona street to confront the Clanton and the McLaury brothers. When they met Billy Clanton and the two McLaurys were shot to death; the popular image of the Wild West was reinforced; and, fuel was provided for countless arguments over the characters, motives and actions of those involved.

And Die in the West presents one of the best fully detailed, objective narratives of the celebrated gunfight, of the tensions leading up to it, and of the bitter, bloody events that followed. Paula Mitchell Marks places the events surrounding the gunfight against a larger backdrop of a booming Tombstone and the fluid, frontier environment of greed, factions and violence. In the process, Marks strips away many of the myths associated with the famous gunfight and the Wst in general.

The original publication of And Die in the West has long been out of print and highly sought after by Wild West enthusiasts. It now has been reprinted and is avaliable from Guidon Books.

The Illustrated Life and Times of Billy the Kid
by Bob Boze Bell
Revised and Expanded Second Edition. 8.5 x 11"
Softbound. Hardbound

In 1992 author and artist Bob Boze Bell published The Illustrated Life and Times of Billy the Kid. It was the culmination of a life long fascination with Billy the Kid and was incredibly well received. The first edition quickly sold out. The author has since published his unique biographies of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday. Both of these also have been very popular. Bell, however, is first and foremost a Billy the Kid man. He has now published the revised and expanded second edition of his work about Billy.

Profusely illustrated and containing many photographs, this is a "must have" for Billy the Kid affectionados

Wild Bill Hickok: the Man and His Myth
by Joseph G. Rosa.
University of Kansas Press, (1996). 1st edition, 276 p. d/j.

Eulogized and ostracized, James Butler Hickok was alternately labeled courage, affable, and self- confident; cowardly, cold-blooded, and drunken; a fine specimen of physical manhood; an overdressed dandy with perfumed hair; an unequaled marksman; a poor shot. Born in Illinois in 1837, he was shot dead in Deadwood only 39 years later. By then both famous and infamous, he was widely known as "Wild Bill."

Excavating the reality behind the myth, Joseph Rosa delves into the exploits and ego that defined Hickok and shows how the man was overtaken by his own legend. Rosa exposes a controversial and charismatic man - army and Indian scout, wagon master, courier, frontiersman, gunfighter, lawman, prospector, addicted gambler, and short-time actor - who was elevated from regional fame to national notoriety by inadvertently being in the right place at the right time.

Culminating four decades of research by one of the top authorities on Wild West legends, this is a highly entertaining account of the larger-than-life character who reported accomplishments - both real and imaginary - frequently brought him unwanted publicity. Setting the record straight, Rosa exposes some of the deliberate lies that vested Hickok with a "mankiller" reputation he didn't deserve. In the process, Rosa reveals a great deal about how myths were initiated and perpetuated to glorify the nineteenth-century frontier.

Ben T. Traywick, The Clantons of Tombstone
Tombstone, Arizona (1996) wraps only, 255 pages.

There have been volumes written about the exploits of the Earp brothers, but until now, not much has been published concerning the other side of the gunfight at the O.K. corral. The Clanton Family was a breed apart. They forged their own legacy and a unique chapter in the history of the Old West. Ben Traywick, Tombstone Historian, captures it all in The Clantons of Tombstone ... the drama and intrigue of this stranger than fiction story of a truly unique American pioneer family. Traywick points out that, although it may be the most remembered episode of the saga, the story of the Clanton family neither begins nor ends in the streets of Tombstone, Arizona. We have several autographed copies on hand.

The Illustrated Life and Times of Doc Holliday Authored and Illustrated by Bob Boze Bell
(1994) First Edition (cloth) (wraps)

A compelling, accurate and sometimes humoruous look at the Old West´s most famous dentist. Profusely illustrated with rare photographs and over 80 original color illustrations by the author. Relive Doc Holliday´s frontier days in Tombstone. The book utilizes a unique chronological format which allows the reader to follow in Doc Holliday´s footsteps from his birth in Georgia, through his gambling adventures in Kansas, to the O. K. Corral gunfight in Tombstone and his death (in bed, with his boots off) in Colorado. The book also offers the author´s insight into such interesting topics as the caliber of Doc Holliday´s marksmanship and his relationship with Wyatt Earp and his brothers, The book´s final section examines the various portrayals of Doc Holliday in Hollywood´s movies. Anyone interested in the legendary personalities of the American West should have this book. Some of the books on hand are autographed by the author. Other books of interest by Bob Boze Bell include The Illustrated Life and Times of Wyatt Earp, The Illustrated Life and Times of Billy the Kid and forthcoming a volume on Wild Bill Hickok