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I've been distracted with other books, so this is only preliminary. It is a good, solid read and well written. It picks up with the real ending of The Shootist; not the one in the movie, the one in the book. Gillum takes Books's guns and becomes a shootist. This poses much more interesting possibilities than the movie ending. The author, by the way, wrote the script for the movie.

Charles Poston was only marginally acquainted with the truth. His Reconnaissance in Sonora may have been an important work, influential in its time, but Poston was less than truthful so often that it's difficult to tell. The author provides important background to the times, the economics and the politics.

This is good stuff.

This is good stuff.

Charles Poston was only marginally acquainted with the truth. His Reconnaissance in Sonora may have been an important work, influential in its time, but Poston was less than truthful so often that it's difficult to tell. The author provides important background to the times, the economics and the politics.

Interesting collection of British, and by extension, American slang of the early 19th century.