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and the Creation of the American West, Mankiller: A Chief and Her People, Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation: Writings from America’s Heartland, Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd, and Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride. His work has appeared in hundreds of national and international magazines and newspapers, including Time, Life, People, Smithsonian, The New Yorker, and the New York Times.

Wallis has won many prestigious awards and honors. They include the Will Rogers Spirit Award, the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, the Oklahoma Book Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book, and the Best Western Nonfiction Award from the Western Writers of America.

He was inducted into the Writers Hall of Fame of America and the Oklahoma Professional Writers Hall of Fame, and was the first inductee into the Oklahoma Route 66 Hall of Fame. He received the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book, as well as the Lynn Riggs Award and the first John Steinbeck Award.

A charismatic speaker who has lectured extensively throughout the United States, Wallis was featured as the voice of the Sheriff in Cars, an animated feature film from Pixar Studios.

Wallis and his wife, Suzanne Fitzgerald Wallis, make their home in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Table of Contents

Personal Introduction

Preface

PART I

1. “Kilt Him a B’ar”

2. Born on a Riverbank in Franklin

3. The Crocketts Arrive

4. Over the Mountain

5. On the Nolichucky

6. A Boy’s Learning

7. Coming of Age

8. The Odyssey

9. Rise Above

10. Lovesick

11. Polly

12. Finley’s Gap

PART II

13. Kentuck

14. “Remember Fort Mims”

15. “We Shot Them Like Dogs”

16. Riding with Sharp Knife

17. “Root Hog or Die”

18. Cabin Fever

19. A Tincture of Luck

PART III

20. “Itchy Footed”

21. “Natural Born Sense”

22. Gentleman from the Cane

23. Land of the Shakes

24. In the Eye of a “Harricane”

25. A Fool for Luck

26. Big Time

27. “The Victory Is Ours”

PART IV

28. Man without a Party

29. Trails of Tears

30. Lion of the West

31. Bear-Bit Lion

32. Go Ahead

33. Just a Matter of Time

34. Gone to Texas

35. Time of the Comet

36. El Alamo

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author