?Nefarious gangs made up of families are famous in the Old West-the James Brothers, the Dalton Gang. This book includes the well known and the more obscure gangs connected through blood ties.

Robert Barr Smith is a law professor at the University of Oklahoma and a retired colonel, U.S. Army. He is the author of four books and nearly 100 articles of western and military history. A senior parachutist, he served in Vietnam, Germany, and all across the United States. He is a frequent lecturer on the West.