Philip J. Rasch

Philip J. Rasch (1909–1995) was a physiologist, a writer of Western history and the author of several publications, notably about Billy the Kid, and the Lincoln County War.

Career

Philip John Rasch was born December 3, 1909, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and served in the U. S. Navy on a submarine chaser in the Pacific during World War II. The extensive detail of Rasch's early research of the Old West, can be found in his 1948 article: Red Hair and Outlawry

Publications

Red hair and outlawry, by Philip J. Rasch; Hans von Hentig, 1947 New Light on the Legend of Billy the Kid, New Mexico Folklore Record, 6 (1953), 1–5. Philip J. Rasch and Robert N. Mullin. Dim Trails: The Pursuit of the McCarty Family, New Mexico Folklore Record, 8 (1954), 6–11. Philip J. Rasch and Robert N. Mullin. The rise of the house of Murphy, by Philip J. Rasch, 1956 Feuding at Farmington, by Philip J. Rasch, 1965 An incomplete account of "Bronco Bill" Walters, by Philip J. Rasch, 1977 Kinesiology and applied anatomy, by Philip J. Rasch, 1989 Trailing Billy the Kid, by Philip J. Rasch; Robert K. DeArment, 1995 Gunsmoke in Lincoln County, by Philip J. Rasch; Robert K. DeArment, 1997 Warriors of Lincoln County, by Philip J. Rasch; Robert K. DeArment, 1998 Desperadoes of Arizona Territory, by Philip J. Rasch; Robert K. DeArment, 1999 A note on Buckskin Frank Leslie, by Philip J. Rasch, not dated