The Chapman legacy
"Francis Elmore Chapman was born for the West and but temporarily restrained by an 1875-chance-of-birth in Nashville. Just after his eighteenth birthday, Chapman travels to the Pecos River Valley in the New Mexico Territory with his father. There the younger Chapman witnesses his first gunfight between a buffalo-bone hunter and Ab Quezada, one of the last of the legendary cowboys. This is the real thing--not pulp fiction--and Chapman is hooked. C...