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In the Shadow of Billy the Kid: Susan McSween and the Lincoln County War. By Kathleen R Chamberlain. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2013. xiv + 297 pp. Photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $27.95 paper.
More than twenty years in the making, In the Shadow of Billy the Kid reflects Kathleen P. Chamberlains fascination with New Mexico's infamous Lincoln County War (1878) and one of its most interesting but least visible characters, Susan McSween. The author believes that historians who traditionally privileged male protagonists like Billy the Kid and the Regulators in the story of this classic Western confrontation have obscured McSween's importance as one of the few women...