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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785106003321

Autore

Burton Jeffrey <1936->

Titolo

The deadliest outlaws [[electronic resource] ] : the Ketchum gang and the Wild Bunch / / Jeffrey Burton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Denton, Tex., : University of North Texas Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-88974-5

9786612889745

1-57441-356-2

1-4416-7868-9

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (561 p.)

Collana

A.C. Greene series ; ; no. 8

Disciplina

978/.020922

B

Soggetti

Outlaws - West (U.S.)

Gangs - West (U.S.) - History - 19th century

Train robberies - West (U.S.) - History - 19th century

Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.)

West (U.S.) Biography

West (U.S.) History 1860-1890

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Meet the gang -- 2. I could kill a buzzard a-flying -- 3. Vagrant years -- 4. Will, Laura, and Ben: the course of true love? -- 5. Three murders and a dead ringer -- 6. Easy money and hard riding -- 7. Crossed trails -- 8. The Steins pass imbroglio -- 9. Framed -- 10. Dynamite and six-shooter -- 11. Separate ways -- 12. Another incident at Twin Mountains -- 13. Bullets in Turkey Creek Canyon -- 14. The sixteenth of August -- 15. Dead to rights --16. Points of law -- 17. Atkins saddles the ocean -- 18. An anniversary for George Scarborough -- 19. Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and Will Carver -- 20. Before he could cock his pistol -- 21. Off with his head -- 22. Empty saddles and lonely graves -- 23. Myth, mistake, and muddle.

Sommario/riassunto

In the late nineteenth century Tom Ketchum and his brother Sam formed the Ketchum Gang with other outlaws and became successful



train robbers. This book presents the definitive truth about Ketchum and numerous other outlaws, including Will Carver and Butch Cassidy.