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Inscribed and signed by the author on the title-page. Scarce biography of legendary western gunfighter, cowboy and rancher Clay Allison (1840-1887), much expanded from the 1920 first edition of 38 pages. McLoughlin (Wild and Woolly: An Encyclopedia of the Old West, pp. 13-14) characterizes Allison as "ranch owner, alcoholic, and a neurotic psychopath of the worst order, whose least objectionable habit was to strip himself naked, thunder up and down the street on his white horse, and then invite the dumbfounded residents into the nearest saloon for a drink. That's the sunny side of the man." Graff 740; Howes C445; Littell 174; Rader 832n.