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Pistol Pete By Frank Eaton  $22.00 |
Pistol Pete
by Frank Eaton
ISBN: 0-934188-01-7
Hardback, 178 pages 5"x8"
illustrations, dust jacket
FROM THE PUBLISHER
The autobiography of Frank "Pistol Pete" Eaton. a one–time cowboy,
scout, Indian fighter, trail rider, and Deputy United States
Marshall Frank Eaton died at his home in Perkins, Oklahoma, at the
age of 98.
As a youth, Frank Eaton avenged his father's death when he was shot
in cold blood by the Campseys and Ferbers, former Confederates who
called themselves Regulators. Eaton witnessed his father's murder in
1868. In the intervening 19 years, Frank finished the job of gunning
down the last of his father’s murderers.
At the age of 15, the post commander at Fort Gibson. Indian
Territory, dubbed Frank Eaton "Pistol Pete" when he out shot
everyone at the fort.
In 1923, "Pistol Pete" gave permission for Oklahoma A & M College to
use his photograph in a design of a college emblem. Today "Pistol
Pete" is the model for the "Cowboy" caricature at Oklahoma State
University, New Mexico State University. and the University of
Wyoming.
Frank Eaton, in Pistol Pete–Veteran Of The Old West, tells about the
constant struggle between law and crime and the result of crime
which in those times ended with a rope or bullet. His memoirs offer
a colorful, humorous, violent, and moving picture of law and
lawlessness in Indian Territory.