Author Eva Gillhouse was born in Maricopa County, Arizona, in 1892. In 1952, her biography of Frank "Pistol Pete" Eaton, a gunfighter from the Old West, was published under the title Pistol Pete, Veteran of the Old West. The book has since been republished in paperback as The True Story of Kill or Be Killed in the Real Old West: The Recollections and Personal Photos of Gunfighter and Lawman Frank "Pistol Pete" Eaton. Gillhouse died in Nevada in 1977.

Marian Wojciechowski was born April 25, 1914 in a region called Poland just as World War I was beginning. He grew up there when the country did not technically exist, and their language was forbidden. By the 1930s and the dawning of World War II, Wojciechowski was a young man struggling to understand what was transpiring, but knowing that he must participate in the Polish underground resistance against the Germans.