When Outlaws Wore Badges

Winner of the 2021 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards (History, Other)

When Outlaws Wore Badges explores the double lives of outlaw lawmen through some of the West's most memorable frontier characters, including Wyatt Earp, Justice Hoodoo Brown, Deputy JJ Webb, and the Dalton Gang.

New Mexico native Melody Groves loves anything Western. Winner of numerous writing awards, her most recent non-fiction book is Butterfield's Byways: America's First Overland Mail Route Across the West. Specializing in Western history, she has authored two fiction series: The Colton Brothers Saga and The Maud Overstreet Series. A member of Western Writers of America and Southwest Writers, she also plays rhythm guitar in The Jammy Time band. She lives in Albuquerque.