| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.4

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.4 | The History Cooperative

Bravo of the Brazos: John Larn of Fort Griffin, Texas. By Robert K. DeArment. Foreword by Charles M. Robinson III. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. xviii + 222 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)
John Larn was less than thirty years old when he died in 1878. But more than a century after his death, the mere mention of his name provokes a division among those who would overlook his many sins and those who say he got better than he deserved when a band of masked men fatally shot him while he was incarcerated for cattle rustling and murder.	1
In his latest effort, independent scholar Robert K. DeArment provides the first complete story of this enigmatic and controversial individual. The book reminds the reader that greed and a vicious disregard for human life were alive and well on the Fort Griffin frontier in the 1870s. While other books have provided that reminder for other frontiers, this one solves the authentic historical mystery of a charismatic and controversial figure.	. . .

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