by Robert K. DeArment
Here for the first time is the complete life story of the controversial lawman, Frank Canton, born Joe Horner, who, after conviction and imprisonment for armed robbery, escaped to change his name and transform himself into an ambitious, hard-working peace officer pursuing felons all ofver the western frontier for almost half a century.
Canton was active in widely separate sections of the country--Texas, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and Alaska--during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth. Western historians Robert K. DeArment has tracked down the facts of the mysterious Canton's early life and misdeeds in Texas; his participation in the Johnson County War as an agent of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association; his pursuit of the Daltons, Bill Doolin, and other outlaws in Oklahoma Territory; his experiences as a peace officer and gold prospector in Alaska; his career as a bounty hunter; and his ultimate success as adjutant general of the new state of Oklahoma.
"This is a definitive biography, scrupulously documented, very well written. The combination of interesting narrative and perceptive analysis is outstanding." -- Richard Maxwell Brown.
Robert K. DeArment is well know as the author of many excellent histories of prominent western figures.
