Frederick Nolan, author of The Life and Death of John Henry Tunstall; The
Lincoln County War: A Documentary History; The West of Billy the Kid; Bad Blood: The Life and Times of the Horrell Brothers; and many others, wrote:
"Karen and John Tanner have rescued George Musgrave, perhaps one of the most dangerous and certainly one of the most indestructible outlaws of his time, from the historical limbo into which he had disappeared and made him live and breathe. Ranging from the post-Civil War Texas Brasada to his final days in Paraguay, their account of Musgrave's half-century of outlawry is a carefully documented tour-de-force, which will undoubtedly become immediately and unassailably the definitive work on the subject. I cannot imagine how it could have been more thoroughly or meticulously done. This is historical research of the highest order."
Robert K. DeArment, author of Bat Masterson: the Man and the Legend; Knights of the Green Cloth: The Saga of the Frontier Gamblers; George Scarbrough: The Life and Death of a Lawman on the Closing Frontier; Alias Frank Canton; and others, wrote:
"The Musgrave biography will become, I believe, the primary authoritative source for those interested in southwestern territorial outlawry in the late nineteenth century. No previous volume has so clearly recounted the complicated story of outlawry in that particular time and place. The South American section alone makes the Tanners' book an outstanding contribution to Western history."
Jeffrey Burton, author of Indian Territory and the United States, 1866-1906; Black Jack Christian: Outlaw; Bureaucracy, Blood Money and Black Jack's Gang; Dynamite and Six-Shooters, wrote:
"I firmly believe that George Musgrave is the best outlaw book ever written. For a start, the story is so good; I thought, forty years ago, that it was unbeatable; and nothing I've learned since has come close to altering that conviction. Then the research is so good. And, thirdly, the analysis and the writing matches the quality of material."
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