A Dynasty of Western Outlaws

by Wellman, Paul Iselin; Brown, Richard Maxwell

• ISBN13: 9780803297098
• ISBN10: 0803297092
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1986-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

The organized gangs of robbers and killers who roamed the Midwest and Southwest from the 1860s to the 1930s went to the same school and were succored by each other's notoriety. So Paul I. Wellman makes a case for "the contagious nature of crime." William Quantrill and his guerrillas established a criminal tradition that was to link the James, Dalton, Doolin, Jennings, and Cook gangs; Belle and Henry Starr; Pretty Boy Floyd; and others in "a long and crooked train of unbroken personal connections."

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 1
A Word to the Reader	p. 13
the Bloody Chain	p. 17
"Order No. 11" and the Aftermath	p. 44
Northfield--And "The Dirty Little Coward"	p. 95
a Brushwood Courtesan	p. 130
"To Beat Jesse James"	p. 158
the Oklahoma "Long Riders" Take Over	p. 188
to the Bloody End	p. 209
the Hanging Judge Does His Duty	p. 236
Amateur Outlaws-- and the Death of a Marshal	p. 271
Automatics and Automobiles	p. 296
Bibliography, Evaluated	p. 355
Index	p. 369
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