Publication

1986 - University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska

Language

English

Word Count

96,000 words, Guess

Page Count

384 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing460763
  • Goodreads1263594

Classifications

  • DDC978/.02
  • LCCF591 .W415 1986
  • LCCF591.W415 1986

Description

A history of western outlaws - gangs and individuals - from Quantrill's raiders to Pretty Boy Floyd.

Description

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."--From publisher description.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • A dynasty of western outlawsUniversity of Nebraska Press1986

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