The Gunfighters Author:George Constable, Editor One of "The Old West" series by Time-Life — THE COVER: The sheriff's star worn by the weather-beaten rider in E.F. Ward's painting stamps him as a gunfighter recruited to preserve law and order in a frontier county. The outlaw, at the opposite pole of the same gunfighting breed, is represented by the frontis piece: an 1881 bounty poster for gan... more »g leaders Frank and Jesse James, whose raids on trains and banks for 15 years made them the scourge and wonder of the border states.« less