title: Famous Sheriffs and Western Outlaws: Incredible True Stories of Wild West Showdowns and Frontier Justice
author:  William MacLeod Raine 
description: <strong>William MacLeod Raine</strong> was a British-born American novelist who wrote numerous adventure stories about the American Old West. In 1920 he was awarded an M.L. degree from the University of Colorado where he had established that schools first journalism course. He passed away in 1954 at the age of eighty-three.
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  # FOUR OUTLAWS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CHAPTER 1
  
  
  
  
  
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  If ever there was a peaceful day on the Frontier, today was such a day. There
  were none of the winds from the north that carried airborne monsters and evil
  spirits, so a drunk with a bottle of cheap liquor in hand could walk from one
  end of Main Street to the other without breaking a sweat. Children were out on
  the school field engrossed in a rather rough new game that was said to be all
  the rage in the Capital. The sheriff, having finished his patrol about ten
  minutes earlier, was completing his reports on a couple of recent crimes,
  while the owner of the general store sat in the corner of his currently
  customer-free shop eagerly envisioning the fire-lizard races that would soon
  be held in the neighboring village. On a day lik