Jeff Arnold has lived in the UK and Italy and is now retired in France. He is the author of the blog JEFF ARNOLD’S WEST (jeffarnoldswest.com) which has been going since 2010 and which reviews Western movies and books. A history major and a passionate reader and writer about the West, he is also widely traveled there, especially in Arizona and New Mexico.
Las Vegas, New Mexico Territory in 1879, when the railroad arrives, is a boomtown for men and women of dubious virtue from all over the West. Gamblers, gunmen, crooks, shady ladies, they all drift in, and the result is explosive.In this febrile and dangerous environment, real historical characters i...