San Antonio College Library

The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch. It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today.

Legendary figures of Mississippi's colorful past--keel-boatman Mike Fink and the dread Harp brothers--along with characters from Eudora Welty's own delightful imagination people this rollicking fantasy set along the Natchez Trace. Berry-stained bandit Jamie Lockhart steals pioneer wilderness planter Clement Musgrove's beautiful daughter, Rosamond, away from a home dominated by his ugly, evil second wife, Salome. These and other characters are gathered...

"Cuenta con ilustraciones cortos y biografías de chicanos "bandidos sociales" históricos como Gregorio Cortez y Tiburcio Vásquez para nombrar unos pocos."--Tíachucha.

Recounts the largest bank robbery in United States history, the famous Valley National Bank job in Arizona, netting $3 million, and describes how questionable tactics used by the FBI led to the acquittal of their main suspects.

A fictionalized account of Willie Sutton, one of the most notorious criminals in American history, traces his life, his doomed romance with his first love, and his surprise pardon on Christmas Eve in 1969.

Critically examines the accounts of the activities of the James Brothers and presents a history of their careers.

Robert LeRoy Parker, born in the 1880s in Utah, is better known by his alias, Butch Cassidy. His restless and acquisitive nature led him into a early life of crime. Separates mythology from actual events, bringing the story of Butch Cassidy up to date with all the most recent discoveries.