The Gunfighters: James Horan's Authentic Wild West

Few books on the "Wild West" go into as much detail on specific characters as these sets of books do ( there are two others: the Lawmen and the Outlaws). This book is filled with accounts by eyewitnesses and the Gunfighters themselves. Although sometimes I find these books 'dry', they are incredible references. Filled with newspaper reports of the day, excerpts from courtroom documents and plenty of asides from the gunfighters themselves as well as the people who knew them ( parents, friends, enemies and lovers ), they are lavishly illustrated, well documented and completely annotated with sources AND bibliography of about every quote in the book. This enables you to understand where EVERY source comes from. One of the most complete references that I have ever seen on the subject. If this subject interests you then this is a must have book for your library.