title: Frontier Colorado Gunfights: True Stories of Outlaws and Lawmen in the American West
author: Kenneth Jessen
description: About author Kenneth Jessen Jessen started writing feature stories for area newspapers over four decades ago and continues to contribute twice a week to the Loveland Reporter-Herald. He is also a contributor to Colorado Central Magazine. This has resulted in the publication of over 2,000 illustrated articles plus 20 books. Jessen is one of the founding members of the Western Outlaw Lawman History Association (W.O.L.A.). This organization and the National Outlaw and Lawman History Association combined to form todays Wild West History Association. Jessen teaches adult education for Colorado State University several times a year and also is on the lecture circuit for area museums and historical societies. Jessen is a life member of the Colorado Railroad Museum, and for over a quarter of a century has been a member of the Rocky Mountain Railroad Club. He has made a number of television appearances including CBS Channel Four Colorado GetAways and once on CBS Sunday Morning. Lasting a year, Jessen also had a morning radio show on KCOL in Fort Collins covering various aspects of area history. Books by Kenneth Jessen: Railroads of Northern Colorado Trolley Cars of Fort Collins Built to Haul Beets Thompson Valley Tales Eccentric Colorado Bizarre Colorado Colorados Strangest Georgetown  A Quick History Estes Park  A Quick History The Great Western Railway The Wyoming/Colorado Railroad How it all Began An Ear in his Pocket Out the Back and Down the Path Colorado Gunsmoke Ghost Towns, Colorado Style volumes one, two and three Ghost Towns, Eastern Colorado Rocky Mountain National Park Pictorial History Estes Park Beginnings For information, see www.kennethjessen.com.
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  Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly
  March 7, 1934
  Vol. 100, No. 4
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  A ﬁghtin’ waddy, a lost gold mine, an’ a gang o’
  gun-slingin’ outlaws.
  
  CHAPTER I.
  ARIZONA BANDITS.
  BULLETS screamed from six angles upon the boulder pile
  behind which “Rio” Rand had taken refuge. The bronzed
  young cowboy lay ﬂat on his stomach and punched
  cartridges into the smoking chambers of his twin Colt six-
  guns.
  “Plenty of ammunition,” grunted the Texan, rubbing the
  side of his jaw against a dusty shoulder to remove the
  sweat, “but when a man can’t even see his targets, a lot o’
  good bullets will do ’im.”
  Rand shoved back the snow-white sombrero from his
  moist brow, and scanned the limited horizon of his rocky
  ambush, alert for a glimpse of sombrero or ﬂuttering
  serape 