Today saw the arrival - all the way from the Good Ol' U.S. of A - of Deadwood's Al Swearingen: Manifest Evil In The Gem Saloon, penned by historians Jerry L Bryant and Barbara Fifer.
According to the Wild West Extravaganza podcast episode on Swearingen, this book is the closest we'll get to knowing the actual person - rather than the charmingly vile anti-hero version portrayed superbly by Ian McShane in the great Deadwood TV show.
This 140-page tome has immediately jumped to the top of my reading pile, as I just finished my first Louis L'Amour novel yesterday (The Tall Stranger)!
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