Gather Dallas Stoudenmire Written By Leon Claire Metz Version

Before Dallas Stoudenmire accepted the position as marshal of El Paso, there existed no authority except that of the sixshooter, and very little precedent for a peace officer to follow.
No one before had held the job for more than a couple of months, Yet, within two years, with the help of Jim Gillett, his young deputy, Stoudenmire had cleaned up the town, a task that earned him many enemies and, in the end, death.
This is the story of Dallas Stoudenmireauburnhaired, fieryeyed, sixfoot, twoinch gunfighter, container of laughter, liquor, and deathduring the two tumultuous years in the earlys when he served as almost the only law north of the Rio Grande and west of Fort Worth.
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