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Desperadoes

Author : Ron Hansen
Publisher : Souvenir Press
ISBN 13 : 0285641239
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book Desperadoes written by Ron Hansen and published by Souvenir Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aged 65, Emmett Dalton is the last survivor of the legendary Dalton gang. Now he lives off his memories in Hollywood. Combining fact and fiction, Ron Hansen depicts the outlaw past of the Daltons and the West they travelled. The Dalton brothers turn from being peace officers in the Indian territories to a life of rustling. When their leader, Bob, meets Eugenia Moore, a schoolteacher who begins to plan their robberies, they become the most notorious outlaws of their time. As their raids, on trains and banks, become more daring and successful the price on their heads and the pursuit of the law increase. Then they ride into Coffeyville, intending to rob both the town's banks. Ron Hansen was the first writer to approach the mythology of the West with the intent of rewriting history, to show the mixed motives and dubious intentions of heroes and outlaws alike. In Hansen's carefully styled authentic voice (drawing on contemporary newspapers and accounts) his novels would pave the way for Cormac McCarthy's Border trilogy. Combining historical research with his novelist's imagination and ability to evoke character, Ron Hansen rewrites the history of the American West, and revises the romanticised mythology of violence created by Hollywood.

Desperadoes

Author : Joseph O'Connor
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desperadoes written by Joseph O'Connor and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1994 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychological journey of "astonishing intensity" moves between the backstreets of 1950s Dublin and revolutionary Central America as Frank and Eleanor Little leave Ireland to search for their missing son in Nicaragua.

Dime Novel Desperadoes

Author : John Hallwas
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252078047
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Dime Novel Desperadoes written by John Hallwas and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exhilarating true tale of two major American desperadoes who once captivated the nation

British Desperadoes at the Turn of the Millennium

Author :
Publisher : Asociatia LiterNet
ISBN 13 : 9737893247
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book British Desperadoes at the Turn of the Millennium written by and published by Asociatia LiterNet. This book was released on with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes

Author : Rafael Acosta Morales
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268200777
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes written by Rafael Acosta Morales and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes examines how historical archetypes in violent narratives on the Mexican American frontier have resulted in political discourse that feeds back into real violence. The drug battles, outlaw culture, and violence that permeate the U.S.-Mexican frontier serve as scenery and motivation for a wide swath of North American culture. In this innovative study, Rafael Acosta Morales ties the pride that many communities felt for heroic tales of banditry and rebels to the darker repercussions of the violence inflicted by the representatives of the law or the state. Narratives on bandits, cowboys, and desperadoes promise redistribution, regeneration, and community, but they often bring about the very opposite of those goals. This paradox is at the heart of Acosta Morales’s book. Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes examines the relationship between affect, narrative, and violence surrounding three historical archetypes—social bandits (often associated with the drug trade), cowboys, and desperadoes—and how these narratives create affective loops that recreate violent structures in the Mexican American frontier. Acosta Morales analyzes narrative in literary, cinematic, and musical form, examining works by Américo Paredes, Luis G. Inclán, Clint Eastwood, Rolando Hinojosa, Yuri Herrera, and Cormac McCarthy. The book focuses on how narratives of Mexican social banditry become incorporated into the social order that bandits rose against and how representations of violence in the U.S. weaponize narratives of trauma in order to justify and expand the violence that cowboys commit. Finally, it explains the usage of universality under the law as a means of criminalizing minorities by reading the stories of Mexican American men who were turned into desperadoes by the criminal law system. Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes demonstrates how these stories led to recreated violence and criminalization of minorities, a conversation especially important during this time of recognizing social inequality and social injustices. The book is part of a growing body of scholarship that applies theoretical approaches to borderlands studies, and it will be of interest to students and scholars in American and Mexican history and literature, border studies, literary criticism, cultural criticism, and related fields.

Dime Novel Desperadoes

Author : John Hallwas
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252093755
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Dime Novel Desperadoes written by John Hallwas and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling true crime narrative and groundbreaking historical account, Dime Novel Desperadoes recovers the long-forgotten story of Ed and Lon Maxwell, the outlaw brothers from Illinois who once rivaled Jesse and Frank James in national notoriety. Growing up hard as the sons of a struggling tenant farmer, the Maxwell brothers started their lawbreaking as robbers and horse thieves in the 1870s, embarking on a life of crime that quickly captured the public eye. Already made famous locally by newspapers that wanted to dramatize crimes and danger for an eager reading audience, the brothers achieved national prominence in 1881 when they shot and killed Charles and Milton Coleman, Wisconsin lawmen who were trying to apprehend them. Public outrage sparked the largest manhunt for outlaws in American history, involving some twenty posses who pursued the desperadoes in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, and Nebraska. Some of the pursuers were intent on a lynching, but the outlaws escaped against incredible odds. When a mob finally succeeded in killing Ed, in broad daylight on a courthouse lawn, that event generated widespread commentary on law and order. Nevertheless, the daring desperadoes were eventually portrayed as heroes in sensationalistic dime novels. A stunning saga of robbery and horse stealing, gunfights and manhunts, murder and mob violence, Dime Novel Desperadoes also delves into the cultural and psychological factors that produced lawbreakers and created a crime wave in the post-Civil War era. By pointing to social inequities, media distortions, and justice system failures, John E. Hallwas reveals the complicity of nineteenth-century culture in the creation of violent criminals. Further, by featuring astute, thought-provoking analysis of the lawbreaker's mindset, this book explores the issue at the heart of humanity's quest for justice: the perpetrator's responsibility for his criminal acts. Every overview and encyclopedia of American outlaws will need to be revised, and the fabled "Wild West" will have to be extended east of the Mississippi River, in response to this riveting chronicle of major American desperadoes who once thrilled the nation but have since escaped historical attention for well over a century. With more than forty illustrations and several maps that bring to life the exciting world of the Maxwell brothers, Dime Novel Desperadoes is a new classic in the annals of American outlawry.

California Desperadoes

Author : William B. Secrest
Publisher : Quill Driver Books
ISBN 13 : 9781884995194
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book California Desperadoes written by William B. Secrest and published by Quill Driver Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early outlaws tell their own raw tales of holdups, shootouts, and desperate flights from the law. Witness the cruel confessions of California bandits during the opening days of the Gold Rush, stage robbers, and California highwaymen. These tales of harrowing and sometimes hilarious antics are accompanied by many rare photographs.

Desperado

Author : Rebecca Brandewyne
Publisher : Love Spell
ISBN 13 : 9780505523761
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Desperado written by Rebecca Brandewyne and published by Love Spell. This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Araminta Winthrop had dreaded her wedding night. Then a band of black-clad desperadoes burst into her wedding reception and the green-eyed beauty found herself captive of her husband's bitter enemy. But the darkly handsome Rigo del Castillo heated her blood like no other man: The notorious bandolero had awakened a passion within her. Soon Araminta found herself aching for Rigo's sweet kisses and yearning for his tender caresses. For when the brazen outlaw had stolen her from her life, he had carved out a future filled with love for them to share.

Desperadoes of New Mexico

Author : Francis Stanley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Desperadoes of New Mexico written by Francis Stanley and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of seventeen outlaws in New Mexico in the 19th century.

Desperadoes of the Ozarks

Author : Larry Wood
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781589809628
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Desperadoes of the Ozarks written by Larry Wood and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating read collects true stories of desperadoes in the Ozarks region between the 1860s and 1950. The Missouri Kid, Bonnie and Clyde, and many more are featured.

45-caliber Desperado

Author : Peter Brandvold
Publisher : Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781410445551
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book 45-caliber Desperado written by Peter Brandvold and published by Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freed from prison by the beautiful Camilla and her cutthroat gang, Cuno Massey, imprisoned for killing several U.S. marshals hellbent on raping the women he was escorting to safety, must ride a bloody trail, unsure where his allegiances lie.

Music from Behind the Bridge

Author : Shannon Dudley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195175476
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Music from Behind the Bridge written by Shannon Dudley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Music from behind the Bridge' tells the story of the steelband a symbol of Trinidadian culture, from the point of view of musicians who overcame disadvantages of poverty and prejudice with their extraordinary ambition.

Desperadoes Omnibus

Author : Jeff Mariotte
Publisher : IDW Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781600103803
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Desperadoes Omnibus written by Jeff Mariotte and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of its decade-plus lifespan, the Western/horror series Desperadoes has traveled some long, strange trails. Since its hard-riding heroes first met while tracking a ritualistic murderer whose crimes gave him supernatural powers, they've experienced quarantine in a haunted town, a reanimated dead boy with a thirst for revenge, a spiritualist's nightmare, and a bizarre quest to the birthplace of the buffalo on behalf of Geronimo himself. For the first time ever, the Desperadoes Omnibus brings all the published Desperadoes stories together in one place, teaming the series' creator, award-winning, bestselling novelist Jeff Mariotte, with a veritable galaxy of superstar artists, new and established. John Cassaday (Astonishing X-Men) became a household name working on the first five-issue run, while John Severin (Bat Lash) made a triumphant return to comics after a long absence with his. John Lucas, Jeremy Haun, and Alberto Dose earned national attention and acclaim from their runs. Saddle up and hang onto the reins, because once you start in on this ride, you won't want to stop!

Cullen Montgomery Baker, Reconstruction Desperado

Author : Barry A. Crouch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780807121405
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Cullen Montgomery Baker, Reconstruction Desperado written by Barry A. Crouch and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although historians have detailed the exploits of desperadoes and outlaws in the latter part of the nineteenth century, those who emerged in the immediate post-Civil War era have been largely overlooked. These outlaws, who were most active in the tri-state area of Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas, harassed the Union army and Freedmen's Bureau agents and terrorized the black population. None spread more fear than Cullen Montgomery Baker (1835?-1869). In this engrossing biography, Barry A. Crouch and Donaly E. Brice sift through local folklore, legend, and fact to provide an accurate account of this southern desperado, whose exploits, if more widely publicized, "would (make) Jesse James and all the gunmen of pioneer days pale into insignificance", according to one promoter of the Baker legend. Nicknamed "Swamp Fox of the Sulphur", Baker has intrigued writers for more than one hundred years and was immortalized in The First Fast Draw, an early Louis L'Amour western. A disillusioned former Confederate soldier, Baker gained fleeting national notoriety promoting a defeated dream in the occupied South. Sharing many white southerners' resentment toward the North, he took to murdering individuals who cooperated with the South's reconstruction. His actions encouraged the rise of outlaw bands and indirectly assisted in the formation of the Ku Klux Klan. Encouraged and led by men like Baker, the violent gangs brutalized Union agents and freedmen. Local cooperation in concealing and aiding the outlaws made it difficult for police forces, politicians, and news agencies to gather reliable information on the "New Rebellion", as it was called by the New York Tribune in 1869. Numerous problems, fromthe powerlessness of the civil authorities to the insufficient numbers of the military, continued to weaken the Reconstruction government. Baker and his ilk, in effect, incited a second civil war. Cullen Montgomery Baker, Reconstruction Desperado is essential to understanding how deeply class and race divided the South during the Reconstruction era.

Belgravia

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Belgravia written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Desperadoes

Author : Edward Gorman
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 : 9780425180082
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Desperadoes written by Edward Gorman and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen stories about desperate men in desperate times in the Old West are featured in this collection with works by Western tale-spinners Louis L'Amour, Loren D. Estleman, Bill Pronzini, Bill Gulick, and others.

The Bohannon Gang

Author : D S Howell
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Bohannon Gang written by D S Howell and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-08-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bohannon gang is arguably the most successful train robbing criminal organization that you've never heard of. The gang robbed at least three different train lines of over $100,000 ($3,105,988 in 2020 dollars) in freight from 1885 until their capture in 1897. Once in custody, the Southern Railroad and the state of Georgia came after the gang with such enthusiasm that the criminal inquiries soon overflowed to create a long list of indictments that included some of North Georgia's most prominent businessmen. The most successful rail pirates of their day would not go quietly, or alone, to face justice.