Originally Posted By: Small Bore
Capstick may have embellished, copied, borrowed, stories, drank too much, whatever. His body of work, in my opinion means he deserves our forgiveness for his human frailties and our admiration for what he produced.


+1!

If you've sat around a camp fire listing to shooting stories, you've probably heard tall tales equal to anything Capstick embellished. What makes his stories so great, is as much the way he tells them. A scoundrel he may have been, but a hell of a writer he is.