Truman Tucker helped tame No Man’s Land. He didn’t do it with a gun. He worked far more often with a pen or a whisk broom. He wasn’t a gun fighter but instead he "tamed the west" as a rancher, a writer and a historian. Walking the rough country in the shadow of Black Mesa in the far western Oklahoma Panhandle, Tucker spent many decades unearthing fossils and relics with his ever-present whisk broom and then telling the tale of what he found with a prolific pen. As he lived in a land that had known dinosaurs, pre-historic tribes and the habitat of outlaws, Tucker’s pen never lacked subject matter.

Tucker grew up during the turn of the century in present-day Cimarron County, Oklahoma. For many years, the Oklahoma Panhandle had been a strip of territory unclaimed by any state, and Tucker lived in the shadow of outlaws and lawmen alike. The story of his life is a cross-section of the taming of a wild and rough country. It is also the story of a resilient people and a way of life and way of thinking holding truths still relevant today.

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