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This book is painstakingly researched and well written. Scholars and fans of western history alike will be intrigued. Historians will be jealous. --Southwestern Historical Quarterly

This book is painstakingly researched and well written. Scholars and fans of western history alike will be intrigued. Historians will be jealous. --Southwestern Historical Quarterly Wrecked Lives and Lost Souls is equal parts gripping crime thriller and social history, expertly blended to provide readers with insight into how Davis and his colleagues navigated a multilayered world like turn-of-the-twentieth-century eastern Oklahoma. -- Journal of Southern History

Wrecked Lives and Lost Souls is more than a chronicle of an Oklahoma badman. It reveals a grandson's dogged determination to illuminate his family's unsavory past that has somehow escaped scholarly attention and, more to the point, remained hidden from Davis's descendants. But then came the day when Thompson, raised in western New Mexico and far from the scene of his ancestor's crime spree, peeked into a box in his mother's bedroom to encounter a world he never knew. -- The Chronicles of Oklahoma Wrecked Lives and Lost Souls is equal parts gripping crime thriller and social history, expertly blended to provide readers with insight into how Davis and his colleagues navigated a multilayered world like turn-of-the-twentieth-century eastern Oklahoma. -- Journal of Southern History This book is painstakingly researched and well written. Scholars and fans of western history alike will be intrigued. Historians will be jealous. --Southwestern Historical Quarterly

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Jerry Thompson is Regents Professor of History at Texas A&M International University and the author of numerous books on the history of Texas and the American Southwest, including Cortina: Defending the Mexican Name in Texas.

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