<p>Here is the most detailed and most engagingly narrated history to date of the legendary two-year facedown and shootout in Lincoln. Until now, New Mexico's late nineteenth-century Lincoln County War has served primarily as the backdrop for a succession of mythical renderings of Billy the Kid in American popular culture. </p><p>&quot;In research, writing, and interpretation, <i>High Noon in Lincoln</i> is a superb book. It is one of the best books (maybe the best) ever written on a violent episode in the West.&quot;--Richard Maxwell Brown author of<i>Strain of Violence: Historical Studies of American Violence and Vigilantism</i></p><p>&quot;A masterful account of the actual facts of the gory Lincoln County War and the role of Billy the Kid. . . . Utley separates the truth from legend without detracting from the gripping suspense and human interest of the story.&quot;--Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.</p>