With painstaking research, Neal chronicled the crimes and the resulting trials that set tongues wagging (and, at times, pistols blazing) back in those days.

Jimmy Carr, VERNON DAILY RECORD

Bill Neal, veteran defense attorney and prosecutor, leads readers from Mississippi to the frontier of West Texas, Indian Territory, New Mexico Territory, and the frozen Montana wilderness through a sequence of related, linked true-life tales of crimes and trials.

Janet K. Turk, REVIEW OF TEXAS BOOKS

Texas Tech University Press has deemed this book such an important contribution to the history of justice on the western frontier that it has selected it as the cornerstone of a new series of books entitled American Liberty and Justice to be edited by Dr. Gordon Morris Bakken, Department of History, California State University, Fullerton.

Growing up near the small North Central West Texas community of Medicine Mound, Texas, Bill Neal painstakingly collected oral histories of its settlers and blended them with “Flavors of the Time” news items—an intriguing anthology that chronicles the lives of those who toiled so hard to tame this remote part of the state.

Located in North Central West Texas, the area along the Red River boundary between Texas and Oklahoma, this was one of the last parts of the state to be settled..... In addition to the narrative storyline of the county, local histories of early settler families, churches, clubs, and organizations are included.