"Thrilling in the extreme, holding the reader's interest, as only true tales of adventure can...historically correct...good reading...Visscher was acquainted with many of the famous riders and Indian fighters who...contributed personal experiences and recollections...intensely interesting." -The Pittsburgh Press, June 16, 1908 "Visscher...wrote...the first book-length history of the Pony Express in 1908 after interviewing a number of old timers."...

A light-hearted look at some of the difficulties faced by the pioneers who traveled by wagon train across the United States to settle in the West.

"From stories of lost cities of gold to the disappearance of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Myths & Mysteries of the Old West makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the American West's most fascinating and compelling stories"--Back cover.

When a frontier baron known as the Commodore orders Charlie and Eli Sisters, his hired gunslingers, to track down and kill a prospector named Herman Kermit Warm, the brothers journey from Oregon to San Francisco, and eventually to Warm's claim in the Sierra foothills, running into a witch, a bear, a dead Indian, a parlor of drunken floozies, and a gang of murderous fur trappers.