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He was the deadliest gun in the West. Or was he? Ringo: the very name has come to represent the archetypal Western gunfighter and has spawned any number of fictitious characters laying claim to authenticity. John Ringo's place in western lore is not without basis: he rode with outlaw gangs for thirteen of his thirty-two years, participated in Texas's Hoodoo War, and was part of the faction that opposed the Earp brothers in Tombstone, Arizona. Yet his life remains as mysterious as his grave, a bouldered cairn under a five-stemmed blackjack oak. Western historian Jack Burrows now challenges popular views of Ringo in this first full-length treatment of the myth and the man. Based on twenty years of research into historical archives and interviews with Ringo's family, it cuts through the misconceptions and legends to show just what kind of man Ringo really was.
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Jin Kurtz
reviewed John Ringo: The Gunfighter Who Never Was on May 12, 2018 John Ringo: The Gunfighter Who Never Was
A brilliant​ly conceived book that not only answers the question of who Johnny Ringo was - and wasn't - as well as anyone ever will unless his family releases the records his family has been hiding and/or destroying; but this book also covers the entire history of how he became famous only long after his death.
And it is equally as valuable in it's handicapping of Western writers and historians as to their reliability - along with his exposure of those who tend to lack honesty and those who fully make up 100 per cent of everything they write.
His one fault being his tendency to not sufficiently criticize the Arizona Historians who blatantly hide and fabricate the truth when it comes to the fight between the outsider​s - led by Wyatt Earp - and the home team of dishonest law enforcement officers and cattle & horse thieves and stage robbers and murderers.
Because this was written back when writers tended to he more civil with each other.
And my closing comment is - the more you know - or want to know about this period - the more you will treasure this book. Because John Ringo is only one of the books many fascinating characters.
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