Tales Never Told around the Campfire: True Stories of Frontier America Book

There are a number of very unusual tales included in this book, but it also had some unfortunate errors, some by the editor and some perhaps by the author. When you use both "Confederate," referring to southern soldiers during the Civil War, and "confederate," referring to the sidekick of an outlaw, one might easily expect that to confuse the editor, and it did. Other errors crept in, though, including the wildly variant age of one character, stated to be 70 by the author, but only in his 50s by the dates given in the same chapter.
My only other complaint is that some of the tales included are frankly trivial in nature. Okay, so Cora Hubbard was the only woman in the old west ever convicted of bank robbery, but the story is otherwise insignificant and a bit pitiful. I guess it does show just how unglamorous bank robbery could really be, but otherwise, the story was not up to the rest of the book.
The more dramatic stories, ranging from the outrageous Hill Family and the real story behind a Wild Bill Hickok legend to an interesting take on Tom Horn were all more fascinating, and would lead the reader to want to find out more.
Several of the stories focus on women of the west, especially ones connected to crimes, but it's not a titillating expose book. It's just one that tells the true stories behind some wild legends, and some of the true stories are themselves pretty wild.