Author Description

"It is somewhat surprising that a man involved so much of his life with more direct forms of communication--the spoken order and the bullet-- would also have skills in the written media, but that he had. And so his writing style here is clear as well as full of personal anecdotes. But Bat Masterson would not write about himself--he would write biography, but not autobiography, being modest, the editor explained. Yet his own story had to be part of the series, so the editor wrote it