Frederick Nolan
Frederick Nolan of London, England, is an authority on the history of the American frontier, especially the outlaws and gunfighters of the Old West. His award-winning books on the Texas/New Mexico frontier --The Life and Death of John Henry Tunstall (1965), The Lincoln County War: A Documentary History (a New York Times "Book of the Year" in 1992), Bad Blood: The Life and Times of the Horrell Brothers (1994) and The West of Billy the Kid (1998)--are considered definitive studies. Some of his most recent publications include Tascosa: Its Life and Gaudy Times (2007) and The Billy the Kid Reader (2007). In 1993, Nolan received the Border Regional Library Association of Texas' Award for Literary Excellence. In 2001, he was awarded the first France V. Scholes Prize for outstanding research from the Historical Society of New Mexico and the first J. Evetts Haley Fellowship from the Haley Memorial Library in Midland, Texas.
Stories by Frederick Nolan
How to Get Rich Buying Books
The McCubbin collection houses first editions of virtually every book touching on outlaw-gunfighter history.
Frederick Nolan, Billy the Kid Expert
Frederick Nolan, author of The Billy the Kid Reader.
What the Brits are Doing for the West
As any reader of True West knows, interest in the Old West is worldwide-people love reading about the Earps and Custer, Billy the Kid and Geronimo just as much in exotic foreign climes as they do in the American West.