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OLD WEST FANS - DID YOU KNOW? Bringing the Wild West to You
Ghosts, Legends, and Folk Tales of The Old West
Rascals, Rogues & Scalawags of the Old West
Hot Lead and Cold Steel
Stormwalker
A western novel
BOB TURPIN’S OLD WEST BOOKS

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• The famous war chief of the Apache Indians is known as Geronimo. His real name in the Apache language is Gokliya which in English means, “He who yawns.” He died at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in 1909.
• The gunfighter John Wesley Hardin killed his first man when he was 15 years old.
• The western state of Nevada is nicknamed the “Sagebrush State.”
• April 22, 1889\, Congress allowed white settlers to stake a land claim in the Indian Territory now known as Oklahoma.
• Idaho, Utah, and Montana lead the U.S.A. in the production of silver.
• Texas and Montana lead in the production of sheep in the U.S.A.
• Homesteaders who settled on government land were called “Nesters.”
• John Wesley Hardin’s father was a Methodist preacher and later a lawyer.
•  When a cowboy says, “I’ve busted my cinch,” he means he has broken the girth attaching his saddle to his horse.
• The terms, “arroyos” means a dry creek bed. In the southwest in the dry season many small rivers and streams dry up.
• Lawless renegades lay in wait to prey on the peaceful wagon trains. Attack, kill, rob, plunder!” That was their cry! But the Old West had heroes to fight back, and the renegades eventually met a grim
fate … either a marshal’s bullet or a hangman’s rope.
• I’m sure some Old West fans will remember many of these terms and information but hopefully, new fans will get a kick out of them.

About Robert F. (Bob Turpin)

Robert F. (Bob) Turpin’s books are enjoyable to read, told in a style reminiscent of the western writers of yesteryears. They have been compared to those of the late great Walter Nobel Burns. In Turpin’s books, Stormwalker, Hot Lead and Cold Steel, Rascals, Rogues & Scalawags of the Old West, Ghosts, Legends and Folk Tales of the Old West, and his current western novel, Stormwalker, he blends fact and fiction to tell some whopping good yarns. He puts exciting colorful words in the mouths of his characters and places them in rip-snorting, gun-smoking scenes that actually took place on the Owlhoot Trail and border towns of the 1880s and 1890s in the Wild West.

His stories often contain historical persons and represent true events, telling how things might have happened. The Wild West comes alive in vivid detail in deeds and daring seldom found in western fiction. You can almost smell the gun smoke in the air and feel the sting of a sharp blade against your skin, as you read Bob Turpin’s Wild West stories.

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