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Examines the colorful lives and careers of the leaders of the Wild Bunch, who always managed to escape unscathed from their criminal exploits until new twentieth-century inventions and crime-fighting techniques caught up with them.

In this book a distant cousin reveals the real man behind the legend. Shedding light on Holliday's early years in a prominent Georgia family during the Civil War and Reconstruction, she examines the elements that shaped his destiny: his birth defect, the death of his mother and estrangement from his father, and the diagnosis of tuberculosis, which led to his journey west.

The brutal story of violent men who lived during the Mexican revolution in the year 1913. It portrays a band of magnificent losers in a dying lawless West.

A highly entertaining, illustrated look at the villains who robbed banks, trains, and stagecoaches - and who sometimes became American folk heroes - from the days of roving gangs on horseback wielding Colts and Winchesters to the era of the clutch-popping Tommy-gunners. In The Bandit Kings, acclaimed historian Roger A. Bruns provides a lively but considered assessment of the Western bandits and the legends they inspired. The story of how these notorious...

Recounts what is known about the famous outlaw's life and death, and discusses the extensive legends that grew up around her.

In the Old West, people often had more to fear than wily outlaws. Sometimes, the men who were bound to keep the peace were just as corrupt as the men they pursued. From fair-weather deputies to US Marshals, these lawmen ruled with violence, instilling fear in all who crossed their paths. The ambitious westerners featured in this collection were often betrayed and destroyed by their own greed.