title: Philip J. Rasch
text: # 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
  