The Old West became so romanticized that it sired its own genre of fiction. And yet GUN NOTCHES is no fiction. It's real. Every bit of it. And yet it contains all of the excitement and adventure of the greatest novels. The life of Tom Rynning captures this romanticized era-the American frontier-in vivid detail and in the author's own authentic voice. And the Wild West truly comes alive in the reading. Rynning served as Captain of the Arizona Rangers when the state was almost entirely lawless.

He was nearly killed in a wildfire and describes it so well you'll feel the heat on your cheeks. He triumphed in the Spanish-American War right alongside of Teddy Roosevelt. He got in fist fights, survived ambushes and heated gunplay. He rode mustangs. He hunted with Indians and trailed outlaws. He tells all of these stories without embellishment. And yet so candidly that you'll feel like you're riding the trail with him all the way.