It was a very difficult thing to distinguish between fighters who were bad men and fighters who were good men.

However, it was no difficult thing for one of my calling to tell the difference between a real bad man and the imitation "four-flush." Then I told the girls the story of Buck Duane, famous outlaw and Ranger.
And I narrated the histories of Murrell, most terrible of blood-spillers ever known to Texas; of Hardin, whose long career of crime ended in the main street in Huntsville when he faced Buck Duane; of Sandobal, the Mexican terror; of Cheseldine, Bland, Alloway, and other outlaws of the Rio Grande; of King Fisher and Thompson and Sterrett, all still living and still busy adding notches to their guns.
I ended my little talk by telling the story of Amos Clark, a criminal of a higher type than most bad men, yet infinitely more dangerous because of that.

He was a Southerner of good family.

After the war he went to Dimmick County and there developed and prospered with the country.

He became the most influential citizen of his town and the richest in that section.