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Autore |
Burton Jeffrey <1936-> |
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Titolo |
The deadliest outlaws [[electronic resource] ] : the Ketchum gang and the Wild Bunch / / Jeffrey Burton |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Denton, Tex., : University of North Texas Press, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-88974-5 |
9786612889745 |
1-57441-356-2 |
1-4416-7868-9 |
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Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (561 p.) |
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Collana |
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A.C. Greene series ; ; no. 8 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In the late nineteenth century Tom Ketchum and his brother Sam formed the Ketchum Gang with other outlaws and became successful |
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