Wrecked Lives and Lost Souls: Joe Lynch Davis and the Last of the Oklahoma Outlaws

Growing up, Jerry Thompson knew only that his grandfather was a gritty, “mixed—blood” Cherokee cowboy named Joe Lynch Davis. That was all anyone cared to say about the man. But after Thompson’s mother died, the award—winning historian discovered a shoebox full of letters that held the key to a long—lost family history of passion, violence, and despair. Wrecked Lives and Lost Souls, the result of Thompson’s sleuthing into his family’s past, uncovers the lawless life and times of a man at the...