Outlaw Tales of the Old West: Fifty True Stories of Desperados, Crooks, Criminals, and Bandits

Outlaw Tales of the Old West: Fifty True Stor...

Outlaw Tales of the Old West: Fifty True Stories of Desperados, Crooks, Criminals, and Bandits was written by and Erin H. Turner. The 409 page book was published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2016 with an ISBN 10 of 1493023292. Most books are now available in ebook, pdf and audible formats. If you need more information about this publication, it can be purchased at Amazon.com or Google Books. If the book is older and/or out of print book try to locate a copy on eBay.com. Outlaw Tales of the Old West: Fifty True Stories of Desperados, Crooks, Criminals, and Bandits mentions 1 serial killers including Lyda Southard. The author Erin H. Turner has 1 book(s) listed on Killer.Cloud used for the purpose of documenting facts about Serial Killers listed in our database.

Book Summary

This collection of fifty outlaw tales includes well-knowns such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Frank and Jesse James, Belle Starr (and her dad), and Pancho Villa, along with a fair smattering of women, organized crime bosses, smugglers, and of course the usual suspects: highwaymen, bank and train robbers, cattle rustlers, snake-oil salesmen, and horse thieves. Men like Henry Brown and Burt Alvord worked on both sides of the law either at different times of their lives or simultaneously. Clever shyster Soapy Smith and murderer Martin Couk survived by their wits, while the outlaw careers of the dimwitted DeAutremont brothers and bigmouthed Diamondfield Jack were severely limited by their intellect, or lack thereof. Nearly everyone in...