The Dalton Brothers

by An Eye Witness

• ISBN13: 9781620875865
• ISBN10: 1620875861
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-08-06
• Publisher: Skyhorse Pub Co Inc

Summary

Being an outlaw in the Old West was a dangerous,grisly business-twenty-three gunshot wounds and living to tell the tale,falling out of a moving train, decapitation due to a hanging gone wrong, lifeon the lam, horse thievery, illegal alcohol trade, and more. This new volume collectstwo long out-of-print classic works-TheDalton Brothers and Their Astounding Career of Crime (first published in1892 featuring "numerous illustrations reproduced from photographs taken on thespot"), about the incredible criminal exploits of the Dalton Gang as told by ananonymous "Eye Witness," and Black JackKetchum: Last of the Hold Up Kings (first published in 1955), about ThomasEdward "Black Jack" Ketchum of the infamous Hole-in-the-Wall Gang as told by EdBartholomew. These notorious outlaws of the Old West gainedtheir infamy robbing trains, and all, except for one, died as violently as theylived-two of the Daltons during a bank robbery in 1892, a third in 1894, andBlack Jack Ketchum in 1901 by hanging. These two classic accounts are broughttogether for the first time in this paperback collection of colorful storiesabout the two gangs. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the truestories of the Old West and nineteenth-century criminals.