I know Dave Johnson. I know Mason County and have researched extensively there, though my interest was not the HooDoo War. The HooDoo War is one of the very most interesting, complex ... fun ... incidents in the Old West.
So I was disappointed when the book came out. Names, relationships, facts are presented in such a manner as to wonder why the publisher let this one go without an extensive re-write. Now, granted, the HooDoo War deserves a much bigger treatment, but crammed into this slim volume, no good came of it.