1998 by Jason Manning St. Martin's Press (New York) 240 pp ISBN: 0312971915
The first of a trilogy of books called The Westerners. The concept was to write about actual historical figures. I wrote four proposals, as I recall, and the three chosen were about cattleman John Slaughter (Gun Justice), gunfighter Ben Thompson (Gunmaster) and the charismatic scofflaw Sam Bass (The Outlaw Trail). The proposal that wasn't chosen was Big-Nose Kate, most famous for being Doc Holliday's consort.