TO THE AUTHOR, THESE ACCOUNTS ARE SO MOVING BUT QUITE INCREDIBLE. ARE THERE ANY INDEPENDENT VERIFICATIONS OF THESE MUSTANG SUICIDE STORIES?

Will James, in two dozen self-illustrated books and scores of articles, created one of the most popular and probably last cowboy legends of the American West. James was
an expert at taking fact and fantasy, legend and lore, and combining them to create a cowboy story people could lose themselves in.

Sadly though, James's success in creating a happy, literary fantasy for children and adults couldn't extend to himself. A victim of the very articles, books, and drawings that
made him famous, James's immense pop ularity threatened to topple the greatest James story of all-the story of his life.

Author Anthony Amaral, a great admirer of James and the cowboy way of life, takes a literary journey to explain the great rise and even greater fall of Joseph-Ernest
Dufault-the man who created and lived the life of Will James