I first read this book when I was doing graduate work at the University of Central Oklahoma. I have since purchased it and was happy that it was available. I do not believe anyone who loves the West and the the lawmen who concurred it can go without reading this book.While it is written with much documentation it reads well. I could not put it down and never could get it out of my mind, after reading it the first time.I feel that Art has opened a new world to those who have no idea about the black man's influence on the history of Oklahoma add the West.