| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.4

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Book Review

*Captain Harry Wheeler: Arizona Lawman. By Bill O'Neal. (Austin: Eakin Press, 2003. v + 190 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $21.95, paper.) The Johnson County War*. By Bill O'Neal. (Austin: Eakin Press, 2004. vii + 290 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $27.95, paper.)
The first thing any reader of both of Bill O'Neal's books will notice is the thoroughness of the research. The bibliography of The Johnson County War, for example, includes fifteen entries under "Documents and Court Records," ten under "Collections," ten more under "Manuscripts," numerous letters, telegrams, interviews, newspapers, nearly one hundred books, eleven films, and over fifty articles. The bibliography of Captain Harry Wheeler is comparably complete.	1
O'Neal's meticulous research is to be expected due to his thirty-year career as a history professor at Panola College in Carthage, Texas. The author of over a score of nonfiction books, and member of the prestigious Western Writers of America, as well as several other historical organizations, O'Neal's background seems ideally suited for authorship of two additional works on the West.	2
O'Neal seems fairly even-handed in his handling of his subject, even offering several negative accounts of Wheeler, especially the famous "Bisbee Deportation," when Wheeler led the physical removal of IWW labor agitators from the mining community of Bisbee, AZ in 1917. Wheeler claimed that the strike of the copper mining company, which initiated the deportation, was financed by German capital and fomented by anti-American radicals. O'Neal quotes from William S. Beeman's "History of the Bisbee Deportations," that "Wheeler may have been slightly out of balance where patriotism is concerned" (p. 115).	. . .

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