A best-selling author of more than forty books, Matt Braun is a storyteller who portrays frontier history, in his own words, with "honesty and rigor, without guile." Defying the format established in the dime novels of the nineteenth century, in which good invariably defeats evil, while still paying homage to the symbolic significance of the mythical West to the American national imagination, Braun follows his own advice from his 1988 handbook, How to Write Western Novels: "Tell it the way it was and you will have told a helluva story." Braun surpasses the restrictions of the formulaic Western genre by incorporating realistic detail gleaned from census records, old maps, and pioneer journals in his revisionist depictions of such famous personalities as Wyatt Earp, John Wesley Hardin, and Jesse James. Considered Louis L'Amour's successor as America's most popular writer of Westerns, he was praised by fellow Western writer Jory Sherman...