A Texas outlaw recounts his dramatic life story in this classic historical Western from the multiple Spur Award-winning author.Joe Pepper is a Texas badman with quite a past. In fact, there isn't much that Joe hasn't done in his forty years of living on both sides of the Texas law--except face the hangman.Now, convicted of murder, Joe is about to get that privilege. But before he goes, Joe has a few things he wants to say-and a few stories that he wants to set straight. This is Joe's final confession, given without embellishment--or apology.With Joe Pepper, legendary Western writer Elmer Kelton tells a moving tale of one man's frontier life, and the history of his home state of Texas.