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| Prelude: "Ringo had to go" | p. 1 |
| Beginning Note | p. 21 |
| Anatomy of a Killing | p. 25 |
| Assassin in the Chiricahuas | p. 59 |
| Ringo at Myers Cienaga | p. 69 |
| For a Hundred Dollars in Gold | p. 87 |
| A Camp in the Woods | p. 97 |
| "The Man Chosen By History" | p. 105 |
| "What Be the Sum Total of a Man's Life?" | p. 113 |
| The Moment of Death | p. 125 |
| "Keep Your Enemies Close" | p. 133 |
| An Act of Self Destruction? | p. 147 |
| Buckskin Frank Gets a Helper | p. 159 |
| The Second Bullet | p. 167 |
| Epilogue | p. 177 |
| Author's Working Notes and Documentation | p. 183 |
| Statement for the information of the Coroner: Compiled at the Ringo death scene | p. 185 |
| "a stinking mess": Correspondence from Robert Boller to Frank King | p. 189 |
| The Coroner's Certificate of John Ringo's death | p. 193 |
| "Cause of death Unknown..." | p. 193 |
| "...burns and grain flecks would have been minimal..." | p. 194 |
| "It seems strange...": Ringo's horse located | p. 195 |
| Ringo versus Holliday | p. 197 |
| "a cold reception" | p. 208 |
| No Welcome Mat in Sonora | p. 209 |
| John Ringo's Trip to California | p. 211 |
| Profile: Pete Spencer | p. 217 |
| Fatal Accident: Death of Joe Hill | p. 221 |
| "Never done nothin' to me personal" (from Buckskin Frank Leslie, Gunman of Tombstone) | p. 223 |
| "He shot John Ringo. I saw him do it." (from Tombstone's Billy-The-Kid) | p. 224 |
| "The life of the party" (from And Die In The West) | p. 227 |
| Pistol-whipping Buckskin Frank | p. 229 |
| "Got another quart" (from Tombstone's Yesterday) | p. 229 |
| "...the most shadowy of all..." (from John Ringo, The Gunfighter Who Never Was) | p. 230 |
| Michael M. Hickey to Ben T. Traywick (Correspondence dated September 23, 1993 Re: Fred Dodge-Stuart Lake letters) | p. 233 |
| Fred Dodge lays down a smokescreen? | p. 242 |
| "Death of John Ringo": The official announcement of the outlaw's death (Excerpted from the Tombstone Epitaph July 18, 1882 edition) | p. 245 |
| "A legend was begun": Buckskin Frank Leslie | p. 251 |
| "A faithful listener": A letter from a 106-year-old man | p. 255 |
| "Sheriff Behan came that close..." | p. 265 |
| Michael M. Hickey to Ben T. Traywick (Correspondence dated January 28, 1994 Re: Pacific Region Planetary Data Center) | p. 268 |
| "Crimes are not always to be solved by logical deduction" (from Tombstone, An Iliad of the Southwest) | p. 271 |
| "...footsteps in the hallway": The Widow Patterson | p. 277 |
| "He wanted respect": Deputy Sheriff William M. Breakenridge | p. 283 |
| Name of Johnny Ringo's Killer is lost to history (The Associated Press Reprinted from the Arizona Daily Star May 28, 1989 edition) | p. 290 |
| "One shot was fired" (Excerpted from the unpublished manuscript An Arizona Vendetta (The Truth About Wyatt Earp-And Some Others)) | p. 291 |
| "...I ended his career" (Excerpted from the story Did Wyatt Earp Kill Ringo? Historian Says It's Possible By Bob Thomas as told by John D. Gilchriese) | p. 293 |
| Who Killed John Ringo? (Excerpted from the story Who Killed John Ringo? By Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp Edited by Glenn G. Boyer) | p. 299 |
| "...the whereabouts of Doc Holliday at the time of Ringo's death" (Excerpted from the story Johnny Ringo! The Elusive Man Behind the Myth) | p. 309 |
| "...a closer look" | p. 320 |
| Tracking Wyatt Earp in July 1882 | p. 321 |
| "...nothing more than a subterfuge" (Excerpted from the essay Doc Holliday in the book, Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier) | p. 327 |
| "...it was all for naught": F. A. Tritle, Governor of Arizona Territory | p. 332 |
| "Republicans having to protect Republicans": Fred Pitkin, Governor of Colorado | p. 334 |
| "...he played his part well": Robert H. 'Bob' Paul, Sheriff of Pima County | p. 336 |
| "...man in the hot-seat": Crawley P. Dake, U.S. Marshal for Arizona Territory | p. 338 |
| "...a discreet level of cooperation": General Orlando B. Willcox, Military Commander for the Department of Arizona | p. 341 |
| "...the Posse Comitatus": Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States | p. 343 |
| "Buckskin Frank Leslie called in the marker..." (Ben T. Traywick to Michael M. Hickey Correspondence dated February 4, 1994) | p. 349 |
| "Don't be afraid, it's nothing" (From Tombstone's Buckskin Frank) | p. 353 |
| "Violence begat violence" (Excerpted from the article Retire Peaceably To Your Homes: Arizona Faces Martial Law, 1882) | p. 359 |
| "...the sanction of the Government" (Crawley P. Dake to Wayne MacVeagh Correspondence dated May 30, 1881) | p. 366 |
| "...threaten to take revenge": J. W. Evans to Crawley P. Dake | p. 368 |
| "Have sent Deputy and Posse after Cowboys" (Crawley P. Dake to Wayne MacVeagh Telegram dated August 5, 1881) | p. 369 |
| "the seal of the Attorney General of the United States" | p. 370 |
| Who says the Military didn't cooperate? | p. 373 |
| "...capture and bring to justice the Leaders of these desperadoes" (John J. Gosper to Attorney General of the United States Correspondence dated August 18, 1881) | p. 375 |
| The "Secret": The legend behind the legend | p. 377 |
| "Wyatt Earp's Federal Posse" (Ben T. Traywick to Michael M. Hickey Correspondence dated March 24, 1994) | p. 437 |
| "...for the time being." (Michael M. Hickey to Ben T. Traywick Correspondence dated April 1, 1994) | p. 441 |
| "...the debate will never end": Michael M. Hickey versus Paul R. Taylor | p. 451 |
| Author's Selected Bibliography | p. 455 |
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