Wilson Rockwell

Doc Shores: an Authorized Reprint of Memoirs of a Lawman Wilson Rockwell

The name Cyrus W. Doc Shores may not be found on the list of larger-than-life lawmen whose legends and lore give them top billing in the taming of America s wild and wooly West; yet, in the late 1800s, Doc Shores became known to law officers and the lawless alike eliciting both fear and respect for a man reputed to be one of the best lawmen of that era. In Doc Shores An Authorized Reprint of Memoirs of a Lawman, author Wilson Rockwell reconstructs Shores life and experiences from the lawman s memoirs. He then combines those personal writings with additional research and captures that infamous time when the West was young. This book provides firsthand accounts of outlaw hunting; observations about famous men who Shores knew both inside and outside the law; and descriptive tales about coming west on a steamer up the Missouri River to Fort Benton, cattle drives from Texas to Oklahoma, and being a bullwhacker and freighting all over the nation s new frontier. On August 7, 1999, Wilson Rockwell autographed an original copy of Memoirs of a Lawman as follows: To my friend David Smith with my appreciation for bringing my books back to life for a new generation of readers. With a thank you to and authorization from Wilson Rockwell s son, Daniel, and in memory of Wilson Rockwell, who died in 2007, Western Reflections and its publisher P. David Smith are proud to reprint this timeless work.