“At last, we have a fine biography of Susan McSween—survivor of the Lincoln County War and ‘Cattle Queen of New Mexico.’ Kathleen Chamberlain’s extensive research into primary sources and her engaging style make this an excellent addition to the scholarship about the Lincoln County War and women in the American West.”—Cheryl J. Foote, author of Women of the New Mexico Frontier 1846–1912
“Kathleen Chamberlain has extracted Sue McSween from behind the shadow cast by Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War to portray her as a strong and sympathetic personality who struggled with frontier living conditions for five decades. She gives us a woman’s perspective on new Mexico’s often-violent history during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.”—John P. Wilson, editor, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid as I Knew Them: Reminiscences of John P. Meadows
