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.
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.
[1] The extensive detail of Rasch's early research of the Old West, can be found in his 1948 article: Red Hair and Outlawry[2]