Not long before his death in 1941, cowboy, rancher, and sometime outlaw Thomas Edgar Crawford dictated recollections of his life in the West from 1881 to 1910. Crawford teamed up with such notorious characters as Black Jack Ketchum and Henry Starr, and after taking up ranching in Montana, he tried his hand at gold mining in California. His story constitutes an amazing record of Wyoming's Hole-in-the-Wall outlaws--though Crawford was reluctant to reveal his involvement in their affairs. He loved to hunt, and some of his best tales concern adventures in search of game.

The West...