Benjamin Capps's work is balanced between the genres of fictionalized history and historical fiction. Capps wrote of cowboys, gunfighters, and ranchers as well as Indians, creating a series of successful characterizations. He chronicled some of the most interesting historical episodes in the saga of the American West, ranging from the days before European intrusion on into the early twentieth century.

Benjamin Franklin Capps was born on 11 June 1922 in Dundee, a small town in Archer County in north Texas. Capps's grandfather was a cowboy who later supplemented his income by capturing and breaking mustangs to sell to settlers. Capps's father, who carried the same name as the son, was born in a dugout in Archer County and followed in his father's footsteps as a cowboy and horseman. Later he went to work in the oil fields in that region. Following service in World War I, he returned home, married...