"To Hell on a Fast Horse" re-creates the thrilling manhunt for the Wild West's most iconic outlaw. It is also the first dual biography of the Kid and Garrett, each a larger-than-life figure who would not have become legendary without the other.

"This illustrated history explores Santa Fe Trade freight wagons and wagon makers. For a half-century until the railroad reached New Mexico in 1880, hundreds of freight wagons yearly hauled commercial goods over the Santa Fe Trail, the major traffic artery between Missouri and New Mexico. The author identifies wagon types and examines wagon makers and their factories, power sources, woodworking machinery, and construction processes."--BOOK JACKET....

Chronicles Sheriff Pat Garrett's pursuit of Billy the Kid in the late nineteenth century, describing the lives of both men, their relationship, the historical legacy left behind by Billy the Kid, and Garrett's life after the death of the Kid.

"The story of the frontier express lines that linked the nation together"--Jacket subtitle.

The journal is part of the author's account of expeditions to the sources of the Mississippi.