A Family of Outlaws

A Family of Outlaws
Author: Ronnie Goss
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2009-11
Genre:
ISBN: 1449037003

First you had movies like, Outlaw of Josey Whales, and Posse, and a book called Cole, now you have, A Family of Out Laws. This book is about a black western, in which the family refuses to let anyone take their land. It has a mixture of Western and Southern cowboys combine. From one crooked town's mayor after another, bounty hunters, and outlaws, the killing just continues to grow. Just remember, there were some black cowboys who didn't take any s**t. Their stories just weren't documented, until now. So saddle up and enjoy the book.

Outlaws, Railroads, and Oil Wells

Outlaws, Railroads, and Oil Wells
Author: Robert J. Gossett
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2010-07-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1452043353

Billy Smith is abandoned by his mother and loses his father in an accjdrnt on the railroad but with the help from friends he begins working for the railroad and advances from telegrapher to yerminal trainmaster before joining a newly found friend in the oil drilling business.

Outlaws and Gunslingers

Outlaws and Gunslingers
Author: Alton Pryor
Publisher: Stagecoach Publishing
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2001
Genre: Outlaws
ISBN: 0966005368

Western outlaws terrorized the country during the late 1800s and early 1900s, robbing stagecoaches, banks, trains and merchants. While they were fearsome, some became folk heroes and legends. The killer of Jesse James was vilified as a coward, while the man he killed was worshipped by man even though he had killed several men. Billy the Kid's reputation outgrew his actual deeds. Legend says he killed 21 men in his 21-year life time. The actual number if believed to be five. The west's fastest gun was not an outlaw. He wa an FBI agent called "Jelly" Bryce. He could drop a coin from shoulder height, draw and shoot it before it reached his waist.

Wanted

Wanted
Author: Robert M. Utley
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2015-11-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0300216688

Two famous 19th century outlaws from opposite sides of the world are brought to rollicking life in the acclaimed historian’s “marvelous dual biography” (Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior). The legendary exploits of Billy the Kid and Ned Kelly live on in the public imaginations of their respective countries, the United States and Australia. But the outlaws’ reputations are so mythologized, the truth of their lives has become obscure. In Wanted, Robert M. Utley reveals the true stories and parallel courses of the two notorious contemporaries who lived by the gun, were executed while still in their twenties, and remain compelling figures in the folklore of their homelands. Utley draws sharp portraits of both young men, offering insightful comparisons of their lives and legacies. Billy was a fun-loving sharpshooter who excelled at escape and lived on the run after indictment for his role in the Lincoln Country War. While Ned, raised in the bush by his Irish convict father, was driven by outrage against British colonial authority to steal cattle and sheep, kill three policemen, and rob banks for the benefit of impoverished Irish sympathizers. Recounting their exploits, differences, and shared fates, Utley illuminates the worlds in which they lived on opposite sides of the globe. “Robert M. Utley displays the gifts that have made him a storied interpreter of the nineteenth-century west.”—T. J. Stiles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The First Tycoon

Butch Cassidy

Butch Cassidy
Author: Charles Leerhsen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-07-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1501117491

"For a century Butch Cassidy has been the subject of legends about his life and death, spawning a small industry of mythmakers and a major Hollywood film. Charles Leerhsen sorts out fact from fiction to find the real Butch Cassidy, who is far more complicated and fascinating than legend has it"--

My Girlhood Among Outlaws

My Girlhood Among Outlaws
Author: Lily Klasner
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 081654722X

Lily Klasner learned the harsh realities of frontier life at an early age. Born in Texas in 1862, she was only five when her family lost most of their provisions in an Indian raid while trekking to New Mexico; their ranch on the Pecos became a stopover for outlaws; and she assumed leadership of the family at thirteen when her father was murdered. In My Girlhood Among Outlaws, Lily recalls her experiences with Billy the Kid and other desperadoes, and sets the record straight on popular misrepresentations of events. Of particular interest to historians is her preservation of the diary of famous cattleman and family friend John Chisum.

The Encyclopedia of Lawmen, Outlaws, and Gunfighters

The Encyclopedia of Lawmen, Outlaws, and Gunfighters
Author: Leon Claire Metz
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2002
Genre: Criminology
ISBN: 143813021X

Standoffs, saloons, and sunsets spring to mind when one envisions the rough and tumble early days of the American frontier.

Bad News for Outlaws

Bad News for Outlaws
Author: Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2009-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0761357122

Sitting tall in the saddle, with a wide-brimmed black hat and twin Colt pistols on his belt, Bass Reeves seemed bigger than life. Outlaws feared him. Law-abiding citizens respected him. As a peace officer, he was cunning and fearless. When a lawbreaker he

Legendary Louisiana Outlaws

Legendary Louisiana Outlaws
Author: Keagan LeJeune
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2016-03-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807162590

From the infamous pirate Jean Laffite and the storied couple Bonnie and Clyde, to less familiar bandits like train-robber Eugene Bunch and suspected murderer Leather Britches Smith, Legendary Louisiana Outlaws explores Louisiana's most fascinating fugitives. In this entertaining volume, Keagan LeJeune draws from historical accounts and current folklore to examine the specific moments and legal climate that spawned these memorable characters. He shows how Laffite embodied Louisiana's shift from an entrenched French and Spanish legal system to an American one, and relates how the notorious groups like the West and Kimbrell Clan served as community leaders and law officers but covertly preyed on Louisiana's Neutral Strip residents until citizens took the law into their own hands. Likewise, the bootlegging Dunn brothers in Vinton, he explains, demonstrate folk justice's distinction between an acceptable criminal act (operating an illegal moonshine still) and an unacceptable one (cold-blooded murder). Recounting each outlaw's life, LeJeune also considers their motives for breaking the law as well as their attempts at evading capture. Running from authorities and trying to escape imprisonment or even death, these men and women often relied on the support of ordinary citizens, sympathetic in the face of oppressive and unfair laws. Through the lens of folk life, LeJeune's engaging narrative demonstrates how a justice system functions and changes and highlights Louisiana's particular challenges in adapting a system of law and order to work for everyone.