LONG JOHN DUNN OF TAOS From Texas Outlaw to New Mexico Hero [SOLD]

LONG JOHN DUNN OF TAOS From Texas Outlaw to New Mexico Hero

By Max Evans

Published by Clear Light Publishers, Santa Fe

Hardback with slip cover, first edition, 1993, 163 pages, illustrated with historic photographs.

From the slip cover

“Long John Dunn was a farm laborer, a cowboy and trail driver, a ranch foreman, a rodeo rider, a saloon owner.  He was also a horse thief, a cattle rustler, a convicted killer, a jail-breaker, a smuggler, a professional gambler and gunfighter.  It took him forty-two years to finally settle down, still wanted in Texas for escaping from the penitentiary, and where he settled down was Taos, New Mexico.

“Long John Dunn and Taos were made for each other.  Both had mixed reputations, great charm, leather-tough hides, and ambition.  And together, they made their fortunes and their claims to fame—Long John as New Mexico’s premiere gambler, one of the state’s most clever and far-seeing entrepreneurs, and one of its greatest storytellers; Taos as a sleepy town ready at any time to get drunk on ‘Taos Lightning’ and shoot out the lights, but also ready to become a tourist mecca and art capital of the Southwest, if only someone would prod it down the chute.

“That someone was Long John Dunn.  In Taos, Long John saw an opportunity to make his mark on the world.  He made it.  Ant this book, filled with colorful history and unforgettable tales of the Old West by one of its last great men, tells just how it happened.

“Long John Dunn of Taos is one of the most moving, powerful, and funny stories ever told about life in the Wild West.”