Pistol Pete Veteran of the Old West

By Frank Eaton

The Amazing True Experiences Of A Famous Cowboy And Indian Fighter. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0934188017
• ISBN13: 9780934188012
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Evans Pubns
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Frank "Pistol Pete" Eaton an actual piece of history

"Pitol Pete Veteran of the Old West" is a captivating book that will hold your interest until the end. It will then have tweaked your interest until you will want to read it again, just in case you missed something. You cannot go wrong with any of the accounts of this real frontiersman/lawman of the west. Whether you are into Oklahoma history or not this book will keep your interest. The human interest and action details are real. Get one while they are still around. This frontier lawman actually lived until 1958. He was the last of a breed. Enjoy!

A Legendary Hero

I was very happy to see this book in print. I knew Pistol Pete when I was a child growing up in Perkins, OK. He never tired of telling his tales to children of all ages while sitting underneath a shade tree. Every time he passed our house, he'd give us a nickel to buy a soda pop if he saw us playing in the yard. I adored him and so did everyone in town. If there was trouble about, my grandmother would tell folks to go get Pistol Pete "cuz he can shoot a flea of'n a dog's back." After his death, I was disappointed to learn there really weren't Indians hiding behind the rocks in his back yard. He always told me to watch out for them. I'm very proud and honored to have known him.

A must for amy Western library: best bio of western sheriff.

This riveting biography of one of the last, if not the last living fire-eating sheriffs of the old West starts with his youth at the tender age of about 5 when his father is murdered by some of the rag-tag Cantrell's Raiders. Given a gun by Rolla Goodnight and shown how to shoot it, he was told that he should not rest until he had killed all five of the men that killed his father. He did it by the time he hit his early twenties. He ran across an old scout that showed him how to improve his draw and accuracy and perfected unheard- of feats for show. Eventually he was working for Hanging Judge parker and describes Tulsa when it was literally a crossroads with a saloon and not much more than just that. Eaton's manner of criminal apprehension is hair rasing and unique, always giving his quarry the chance to draw first. This is definitely a book that you can't put down because of its content, style--- and the fact it is true!! About 1955 I tolked to a fellow who was in the movie businiess,and I mentioned this book to him. He was thoroughly familiar with it and told me that various interests had been trying for years to buy the rights to it, but the family refused to sell it. What a classic it would make!!!