John Hallwas’s new book Dime Novel Desperadoes: The Notorious Maxwell Brothers was featured in the Chicago Tribune‘s October 11, 2008, “Illinois Style” column.

“No books had been written about them; in the late-19th century heyday of the Maxwells, authors tended to prop up moral and upright figures, not two reprobates from the sticks. But, to the amazement of Hallwas, newspapers had splashed story after story about the Maxwells.”