Jack Burrows

This book should have been called John Ringo: The Biography that Never Was.

Burrows spends most of time telling the reader why everybody else's biography of Ringo is wrong, and spends very little time telling us who John Ringo really was. In some ways I empathize with the author because there really is no substantial or reliable primary sources for a biography of Ringo. But frankly, having read a lot of history of the Old West, nothing in this book is new or revealing. While the exegesis and show more (extreme) criticism of Ringo's biographers was somewhat interesting -- it really becomes somewhat tedious.

Burrows could boiled this entire work down to a nice article in an academic historical journal -- and quite frankly probably should have. show less

I found this book to be very eduactional - it just goes to show you how the popular media can so skew history as to make it unrecognizable. The author obviously thoroughly researched John Ringo. Still, while I believe the author's assertions as to the true life of John Ringo, I much prefer the glamorous desporado of literature and film.

The best book on John Ringo. Mr. Burrows throughly discusses the many myths surrounding John Ringo's life and it is well documented. Interesting reading.