When Outlaws Wore Badges explores the world of lawman and outlaw wrapped into one person. At times the badge speaks, other times-the gun. Living in the Old West was not easy. Often, law and justice were left behind in the east, when men migrated to the open lands of the West. Some men took advantage of fluid regulations while others found themselves helping to invent and enforce law and order. A few men did both.
Winner of the 2021 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards (History, Other)
When Outlaws Wore Badges explores the double lives of outlaw lawmen through some of the West's most memorable frontier characters, including Wyatt Earp, Justice Hoodoo Brown, Deputy JJ Webb, and the Dalton Gang.