Doc's Last Gunfight

After more than two years of working on the book about lawman Sam Sixkiller it’s now complete and off to the publisher. The tentative title of the book is The Life and Hard Time of Captain Sam Sixkiller. Sixkiller was an amazing lawman and deserves to be remembered for his heroic efforts in the Oklahoma Territory in the 1880s. Published author, historian and history professor Art Burton wrote the foreword for the book. Burton did the first real work on Sixkiller so I’m proud he was able to add to the book. I completed Hearts West II: More True Stories of Frontier Mail-Order Brides today too. Both items will be released some time next summer. Next project – women outlaws of the Mid-West. Of course the women outlaws I know best have never served any time in jail…yet that is. August 19 was a significant day in Old West history. On this day in 1884 Doc Holiday shot Billy Allen in Leadville, Colorado over a five dollar gambling debt. Doc was arrested, tried and acquitted in that shooting. It was to be Doc’s final gunfight. And on this day in 1895 John Wesley Hardin was attacked and killed from behind by John Selman during a dice game in the Acme Saloon in El Paso, Texas. Long live the wild west.