Jim Johnson has been intrigued with the Old West, its lore, and its legends all of his life. His interest began while watching the old black and white western movies made in the 1940s and 1950s. Over the years he has collected and read thousands of nonfiction books and magazines on western outlaws and lawmen. Today, his library overflows with these nonfiction western books, magazines, and includes hundreds of historical documents. Jim read this information thoroughly and with caution. He was amazed at the contradictions, not only within books, but between books, and some of the fiction added to glamorize the books. His research over the last 40-50 years has taken him across the southwest, including Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma, and the midwest, including Kansas, Illinois, and Indiana. He has copies of thousands historical documents from archives and government records from these states, and from internet records.