"Encyclopedia of Western Lawmen & Outlaws" By Jay Robert Nash
Have you read Bill O'Neal's Encyclopedia of Gunfighters? That's a very useful book.
Right now I'm reading more Max Brand, The Mountain Fugitive. Pretty good stuff.
"Encyclopedia of Western Lawmen & Outlaws" By Jay Robert Nash
Currently reading The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard.
Just finished my first book by Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Copper Streak Trail. I've had him on my to-read list for a while, but I got particularly interested in trying something of his after reading the chapter on him in Agnes Morley Cleaveland's memoir No Life For a Lady. Apparently he was one of the old-time Western writers who lived the cowboy life himself and really knew the territory. If all his books are as good as the one I just read, I think he might get a spot on my list of favorite Western authors.
I read that a few years back. My first Zane Grey. I liked it. Much different from my usual reading genres.Reading "Riders of the Purple Sage." Didn't realize it was written in 1912, but the dialog is almost formal, so I had dated it mentally as early 1900s.
Also did not know he was born during the old west: 1872. I also didn't know he was one of the first authors to become a millionaire.