The early Texans were a breed apart. Outlaws and lawmen, ranchers and cowpokes, merchants and preachers, housewives and harlots - all were hard-working, independent, tough people of the frontier.

In The Gunfighters, legendary U.S. Border Patrol agent, pistol shooter and big-game hunter Colonel Charles Askins takes us back to this long-ago time of bandit country, bringing hundreds of these colourful characters of early Texas vividly to life.

From the extraordinary men of Ranger Company McNelly's Rangers, The"Merry Outlaw" Sam Bass, through to Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker - the infamous Bonnie and Clyde, as well border patrolmen, Comanches and Apache Indians, this book covers them all.

Foreword by: William Askins