ISBN:
058525771X
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0803247362
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9780585257716
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9780803247369
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (384 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
978/.02
Keywords:
1800 - 1899
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Geschichte 1800-1900
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HISTORY / State & Local
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Crime
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Frontier and pioneer life
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Outlaws
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Geschichte
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Outlaws History
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Crime History 19th century
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Frontier and pioneer life
Note:
Reprint. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1961. - "A Bison book.". - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-368) and index
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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 Iames, 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."--Publisher description
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The bloody chain -- "Order no. 11" and the aftermath -- The wild riders of Missouri -- Northfield--and "the dirty little coward" -- A brushwood courtesan -- "To beat Jesse James" -- The Oklahoma "long riders" take over -- To the bloody end -- The hanging judge does his duty -- Amateur outlaws--and the death of a marshal -- Automatics and automobiles -- Public enemy no. 1
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