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The Real Dirt on America's Frontier Outlaws

Author : Jim Motavalli
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1423652614
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book The Real Dirt on America's Frontier Outlaws written by Jim Motavalli and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the real stories behind the infamous renegades of the West with “Motavalli’s entertaining treatment of this bunch of baddies” (HistoryNet.com). The rebels and bandits of the American West—like Billy the Kid, Jesse James, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid—have always made for thrilling tales of gunfights, heists, and outlaws. From the beginning, penny dreadfuls, Wild West shows, dime novels, and urban legends romanticized and magnified these renegades and their wild American spirits. These tales, however, don’t capture the truth of the West’s outlaws—nor do we hear about other lawless individuals, such as Pearl Hart, Belle Starr, or the Bloody Espinosas. Jim Motavalli returns with The Real Dirt on America’s Frontier Outlaws to give a real and more inclusive look at the old West and the dangerous figures that immortalized it.

Real Dirt on America's Frontier Outlaws

Author : James Motavalli
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1423654587
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Real Dirt on America's Frontier Outlaws written by James Motavalli and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The vicious bad guys and bandits of the American West have always made for thrilling tales of gunfights, heists, and outlaws. From the beginning, penny dreadfuls, Wild West shows, dime novels, and urban legends romanticized and magnified these renegades and their wild frontier spirits. We still get chills down our spines from these tales, which are more fiction than fact. The Real Dirt on America's Frontier Outlaws separates myth from truth, showing the legends and the evidence side by side to give readers the real story of the Wild West and the dangerous figures who immortalized it. Learn the facts about Billy the Kid, Black Bart, John Wesley Hardin, Jesse James, and Butch Cassidy as well as some lesser known evildoers such as Isom Dart, Cherokee Bill, The Bloody Espinosas, and Hoodoo Brown among others."--from cover.

The Outlaws of Mesquite

Author : Louis L'Amour
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553899554
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book The Outlaws of Mesquite written by Louis L'Amour and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2005-04-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the frontier bad men—like Leo Carver—a man so hated that everyone in the town of Canyon Gap planned to turn up for his hanging. Then meet those who dared to challenge them—like Marshal Lou Morgan, who tried to save his citizens from a goldmine swindler, only to learn that his own code of honesty made him the biggest sucker in town. There's champion rodeo rider Marty Mahan, called a coward because he was afraid of the bronc Ghost Maker—until he showed them the true color of his courage. Here are classic tales of the West from the storyteller who brings to vivid life the brave men of women who settled the North American frontier.

Tales Never Told Around the Campfire

Author : Mark Dugan
Publisher : Swallow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales Never Told Around the Campfire written by Mark Dugan and published by Swallow Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers stories about outlaws in Texas, North Carolina, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Washington, Illinois, Colorado, Missouri, and Wyoming.

Pirates of the Prairie

Author : Ken Lizzio
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493036580
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Pirates of the Prairie written by Ken Lizzio and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of outlaws and vigilantes on the American frontier invariably calls to mind the Wild West of the latter nineteenth century. Yet, there was an earlier frontier, Illinois, that was every bit as wild and lawless as Dodge City or Tombstone. Between 1835 and 1850 several hundred outlaws and desperadoes descended on the prairie state, holding up stagecoaches, robbing homes and individuals, rustling cattle and horses, counterfeiting, murdering, and terrorizing residents with virtual impunity. In a state that was mostly wilderness, outlaws went undetected for years, often masquerading as law-abiding farmers and merchants while preying on isolated settlers and passing emigrants. If it was hard to detect the pirates, it was harder still to capture them and bring them to justice. With law enforcement incapable of checking outlaws, frustrated citizens eventually took matters into their own hands, administering frontier justice—vigilantism. Posses were formed; outlaws were swept from their lairs and whipped, shot, or hanged. Sometimes the miscreants got their just desserts; other times, the use of public tribunals to enact personal vendettas led to abuses, even chaos. Pirates of the Prairie brings the story of these wild times to life.

Revolutionary Outlaws

Author : Michael A. Bellesiles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Outlaws written by Michael A. Bellesiles and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Frontier Colorado Gunfights

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781928656128
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (561 download)

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Download or read book Frontier Colorado Gunfights written by and published by . This book was released on 1917-11-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century ago, disputes in Colorado were often settled with a six-shooter or a rifle. Often the judicial system was weak or unorganized. Some criminals got away. In these 31 true stories of frontier Colorado gunfights, the reader will sense the state¿s struggle to emerge from bouts of violence into a civilized society. Author Kenneth Jessen includes some of the West¿s most notorious characters such as Doc Holliday, gunfighter Clay Allison, ruthless Bob Meldrum and Bob Ford, the man who killed Jesse James.

Famous Sheriffs and Western Outlaws

Author : William MacLeod Raine
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1616085428
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Famous Sheriffs and Western Outlaws written by William MacLeod Raine and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous Sheriffs and Western Outlaws is a classic for everyone interested in history and what is was like in the Old West. Get swept back to a time when sheriffs did their best to keep order in a lawless land. Read about the likes of Tom Horn, the "Apache Kid", "Bucky" O'Neill, Tom Nickson, and many more!

Outlaws of the Wild West

Author : Terry C. Treadwell
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1526782383
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Outlaws of the Wild West written by Terry C. Treadwell and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This true crime history of the American Frontier separates fact from fiction with in-depth profiles of thirty-eight career criminals and infamous outlaw gangs. In the years following the American Civil War, the country’s western frontier was home to a prodigious number of myth-making cowboys, infamous gunslingers, saloon madams, and not always law-abiding lawmen. But the romantic mystique of these individuals and the time in which they lives is largely the product of novelists and filmmakers. In Outlaws of the Wild West, Terry Treadwell presents the real stories behind such legends as Billy the Kid, Butch Cassidy, the Dalton Brothers, and others—as well as their lesser-known but equally criminal peers. Here are the stories of William Clark Quantrill and his Confederate Army unit, Quantrill’s Raiders, who turned hit-and-run raids into a way of life; Henry Starr, the Native American career criminal who went on to play himself in the movie of his life; Ann and Josie Bassett, the sisters who defended their ranch from cattle barons with the help of Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch; and many more.

The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado

Author : Emerson Hough
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado written by Emerson Hough and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado" by Emerson Hough. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Revolutionary Outlaws

Author : Michael A. Bellesiles
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813916033
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Outlaws written by Michael A. Bellesiles and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutionary Outlaws is both a biography of Ethan Allen and a social history of the conflict between agrarian commoners and their wealthy adversaries. Beginning his political career with a price on his head, Allen was transformed by the American Revolution into a national hero. In the same way he and his outlaws, the Green Mountain Boys, became exemplars of republican virtue.

The Great American Outlaw

Author : Frank Richard Prassel
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806128429
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book The Great American Outlaw written by Frank Richard Prassel and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores in depth the origins, development, and prospects of outlawry and of the relationship of outlaws to the social conditions of changing times. Throughout American history you will find larger-than-life brigands in every period and every region. Often, because we hunger for simple justice, we romanticize them to the point of being unable to separate fact from fiction. Frank Richard Prassel brings this home in a thorough and fascinating examination of the concept of outlawry from Robin Hood, Dick Turpin, and Blackbeard through Jean Lafitte, Pancho Villa, and Billy the Kid to more modern personalities such as John Dillinger, Claude Dallas, and D. B. Cooper. A separate chapter on molls, plus equal treatment in the histories of gangs, traces women's involvement in outlaw activities. Prassel covers the folklore as well as the facts, even including an appendix of ballads by and about outlaws. He makes clear how this motley group of bandits, pirates, highwaymen, desperadoes, rebels, hoodlums, renegades, gangsters, and fugitives—who stand tall in myth—wither in the light of truth, but flourish in the movies. As he tells the stories, there is little to confirm that Jesse and Frank James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Daltons, Pretty Boy Floyd, Ma Barker, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, Belle Starr, the Apache Kid, or any of the so-called good badmen, did anything that did not enrich or otherwise benefit themselves. But there is plenty of evidence, in the form of slain victims and ruined lives, to show how many ways they caused harm. The Great American Outlaw is as much an excellent survey on the phenomenon as it is a brilliant exposition of the larger than-life figures who created it. Above all, it is a tribute to that aspect of humanity that Americans admire most and that Prassel describes as a willingness "to fight, however hopelessly, against exhibitions of privilege."

Gunfighter Nation

Author : Richard Slotkin
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806130316
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Gunfighter Nation written by Richard Slotkin and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the ways in which the frontier myth influences American culture and politics, drawing on fiction, western films, and political writing

Beyond the Cattle Gate

Author : Timothy Draper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781639778485
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (784 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Cattle Gate written by Timothy Draper and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the truth of the American West. Are you ready to hear the whole story? Written by industry-leading expert Timothy Draper, Beyond the Cattle Gate unlocks the secrets of real outlaws who shaped the American Frontier. Discover lost gold mines, forgotten western towns, and the buried loot of notorious outlaws that lie forgotten in America's majestic mountain ranges. Let this be your compass as you trace the faint footsteps of these renegades and witness a vivid depiction of the Old West-as never told before. Unlike conventional history books, this remarkable narrative delves into the darker side of the western era, unearthing forgotten and undisclosed historical events that shed new light on legendary criminals. Were they robbing banks solely for personal gain, or were they seeking to disrupt the wealth of the privileged? Read along as their motivations are revealed, and it's disclosed how their actions shaped the course of the true American West. Equipped with insight into outlaw history and legend, you can hold the power to embark on your own extraordinary treasure hunt. The ultimate discovery awaits those who dare to venture forth.

Gold Dust and Gunsmoke

Author : John Boessenecker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Gold Dust and Gunsmoke written by John Boessenecker and published by . This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TALES OF GOLD RUSH OUTLAWS, GUNFIGHTERS, LAWMEN, AND VIGILANTES.

Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and American Folk Outlaw Performance

Author : Damian A. Carpenter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317107071
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and American Folk Outlaw Performance written by Damian A. Carpenter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its appeal predicated upon what civilized society rejects, there has always been something hidden in plain sight when it comes to the outlaw figure as cultural myth. Damian A. Carpenter traverses the unsettled outlaw territory that is simultaneously a part of and apart from settled American society by examining outlaw myth, performance, and perception over time. Since the late nineteenth century, the outlaw voice has been most prominent in folk performance, the result being a cultural persona invested in an outlaw tradition that conflates the historic, folkloric, and social in a cultural act. Focusing on the works and guises of Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, and Bob Dylan, Carpenter goes beyond the outlaw figure’s heroic associations and expands on its historical (Jesse James, Billy the Kid), folk (John Henry, Stagolee), and social (tramps, hoboes) forms. He argues that all three performers represent a culturally disruptive force, whether it be the bad outlaw that Lead Belly represented to an urban bourgeoisie audience, the good outlaw that Guthrie shaped to reflect the social concerns of marginalized people, or the honest outlaw that Dylan offered audiences who responded to him as a promoter of clear-sighted self-evaluation. As Carpenter shows, the outlaw and the law as located in society are interdependent in terms of definition. His study provides an in-depth look at the outlaw figure’s self-reflexive commentary and critique of both performer and society that reflects the times in which they played their outlaw roles.

Outlaws and Lawmen

Author : Kenneth McIntosh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1422296865
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Outlaws and Lawmen written by Kenneth McIntosh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American society in the 1800s had a rough edge to it. In a nation made up of people of diverse backgrounds and heritage, social controls needed to be strict and enforceable. The extreme economic inequality of America's cities and the wide-open moral code of the frontier led to a culture of crime and violence that still plagues our country. During the 1800s, professional police forces were established in cities, towns, and territories across the continent. On the frontier, "justice" was often swift and severe, with "hanging judges" making their reputations as representatives of the law in a lawless land. Long prison sentences in miserable conditions were the rule for criminals, and many a prisoner might have preferred the option of a quick execution. Before the reform of the legal system—which is an ongoing process—there was definitely a separate law, and a separate standard of penalties, for the rich and for the poor. The evolution of a humane penal system and a fairer protection of all citizens under the law is an important contribution of 1800s America to the modern world.