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A Rough Ride to Redemption
The Ben Daniels Story
By Robert K. DeArment, Jack DeMattos, William B. Secrest
All about the most colorful of Teddy Roosevelt’s “White House Gunfighters”
“If you want to understand the Code of the West, A Rough Ride to Redemption is a good place to start. Historians Robert K. DeArment and Jack DeMattos brilliantly trace gunman Ben Daniels’s amazing career from the Wyoming Territorial Penitentiary to Dodge City to charging up Kettle Hill with Teddy Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War. A marvelous book!”
—Douglas Brinkley author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
He may be little known today, but Ben Daniels was a feared gunman who typified the journeyman gunfighter every bit as much as those whose names have become legend. Yet his story has eluded researchers and yarn-spinners alike—until now.
Two prominent western historians have teamed up to tell the story of Ben Daniels’s rise from outlaw and convict to presidential protégé and high-ranking ... read more |
