Bill Doolin American Outlaw

Author : Bill Brooks
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645401988

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Bill Doolin: American Outlaw by Bill Brooks Pdf

Bill Doolin was perhaps the last great American outlaw of the nineteenth century. Once part of the Doolin-Dalton gang, he rode and robbed in the wild Indian Territory that would become Oklahoma. The Daltons were eventually shot to ribbons in their failed attempt to rob two banks at once in Coffeyville, Kansas. But Doolin went on to form a new gang that included notables such as Bitter Creek Newcomb, Black Face Charlie Pierce, a remaining Dalton brother, and the Rose of the Cimarron, Rose Dunn, sister of the notorious Dunn Brothers. Pursuing the gang was a tenacious group of U.S. marshals led by the famed Bill Tilghman. Doolin was considered something of a Robin Hood to the locals—everybody but those he robbed and killed. The marshals were determined to end his reign of terror no matter how long it took. The country, after all, was heading into a new century, and outlaws like Doolin no longer had a place in the West.

Author : Bailey C. Hanes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806116528

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Bill Doolin by Bailey C. Hanes Pdf

Called "King of the Oklahoma Outlaws" by Marshal Bill Tilghman, Bill Doolin first served an apprenticeship as a member of the Dalton gang. Wisely avoiding the gang's fiasco at Coffeyville, Doolin formed his own gang in 1892, and for the next four years these wild characters robbed trains, looted banks, and otherwise thumbed their noses at harassed U.S. marshals. By the time Doolin was ambushed and killed by a heavy shotgun blast, his escapades were providing rich material for the legends that flourish today about the man and his activities.

Author : Bill Brooks
Publisher : Five Star Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1432832263

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American Outlaw by Bill Brooks Pdf

"Leader of the last of the great outlaw bands -- the Olklahombres, Bill Doolin outfoxed the law while trying to walk the line between being a good man and bad. He was a family man and a bank and train and stagecoach robber. By the end of his reign, almost every one of his gang had been gunned down, and now the law was out to finish him as well. But it would not be easy, not even for the likes of the famed U.S. Marshals led by Heck Thomas. A fictional account based on factual evidence about the last of the badmen"--Amazon.com.

Author : Frank Richard Prassel
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1996-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806128429

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The Great American Outlaw by Frank Richard Prassel Pdf

This book explores in depth the origins, development, and prospects of outlawry and of the relationship of outlaws to the social conditions of changing times. Throughout American history you will find larger-than-life brigands in every period and every region. Often, because we hunger for simple justice, we romanticize them to the point of being unable to separate fact from fiction. Frank Richard Prassel brings this home in a thorough and fascinating examination of the concept of outlawry from Robin Hood, Dick Turpin, and Blackbeard through Jean Lafitte, Pancho Villa, and Billy the Kid to more modern personalities such as John Dillinger, Claude Dallas, and D. B. Cooper. A separate chapter on molls, plus equal treatment in the histories of gangs, traces women's involvement in outlaw activities. Prassel covers the folklore as well as the facts, even including an appendix of ballads by and about outlaws. He makes clear how this motley group of bandits, pirates, highwaymen, desperadoes, rebels, hoodlums, renegades, gangsters, and fugitives—who stand tall in myth—wither in the light of truth, but flourish in the movies. As he tells the stories, there is little to confirm that Jesse and Frank James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Daltons, Pretty Boy Floyd, Ma Barker, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, Belle Starr, the Apache Kid, or any of the so-called good badmen, did anything that did not enrich or otherwise benefit themselves. But there is plenty of evidence, in the form of slain victims and ruined lives, to show how many ways they caused harm. The Great American Outlaw is as much an excellent survey on the phenomenon as it is a brilliant exposition of the larger than-life figures who created it. Above all, it is a tribute to that aspect of humanity that Americans admire most and that Prassel describes as a willingness "to fight, however hopelessly, against exhibitions of privilege."

Author : Paul Iselin Wellman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803297092

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A Dynasty of Western Outlaws by Paul Iselin Wellman Pdf

Examines the tradition of lawlessness in the American West from the time of Quantrill's Raiders to Pretty Boy Floyd

Author : Harry Sinclair Drago
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 080326612X

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Outlaws on Horseback by Harry Sinclair Drago Pdf

Outlaws on Horseback concentrates on the long, unbroken chain of crime that began in the late 1850s with the Missouri-Kansas border warfare and ended in Arkansas in 1921 with the killing of Henry Starr, the last of the authentic desperadoes. Harry Sinclair Drago shows links among the men and women who terrorized the Midwest while he squelches the most outlandish tales about them. The guerrilla warfare led by the evil William Quantrill was training for Frank and Jesse James and Cole and Jim Younger. Drago puts their bloody careers in perspective and tracks down the truth about Belle Starr the Bandit Queen, Cherokee Bill, Rose of the Cimarron, and the gangs, including the Daltons and Doolins, that infested the Oklahoma hills. The action moves from the sacking of Lawrence to the raid on Northfield to the shootout at Coffeyville.

Author : Gerry Souter,Janet Souter
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780760346457

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Guns of Outlaws by Gerry Souter,Janet Souter Pdf

"A look at the weapons used by infamous outlaws throughout American history, featuring stories of their use, glimpses into the minds behind the trigger fingers, and over 200 historical images"--

Author : Mark Svenvold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111787581

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Elmer Mccurdy: The Life And Afterlife Of An American Outlaw by Mark Svenvold Pdf

Story of an obscure outlaw who, after being shot to death, had his corpse displayed in carnivals, museums, and as a movie prop.

Author : Nancy Ohnick
Publisher : Prairie Books
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 9780974622217

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The Dalton Gang and Their Family Ties by Nancy Ohnick Pdf

Author : Emmett Dalton
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-22
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1455601144

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Beyond the Law by Emmett Dalton Pdf

Train robbers, horse thieves, murderers. These are only a few of the accusations leveled against the Dalton Gang, the fraternal band of Western lawmen turned outlaws in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Daring in their exploits, the gang members turned their backs on laws they found to be criminally flawed and stole horses, bootlegged whiskey into Indian Territory, and committed the first American train robbery. A rare firsthand account originally published in 1918, this volume details the time when sheriffs were paid for each man they hanged, law enforcement rode under the banner of "Smith & Wesson" rather than "To Serve and Protect," and outlaws ruled the rails.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 0933043228

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Lawmen and Outlaws by Anonim Pdf

John Beidler. William Preston Longley. Joaquin Murietta. Cattle Kate. Cole Younger. John Wesley Hardin. Jesse James. Black Jack Ketchum. Billy the Kid. Pat Garrett. Black Bart. Tiburcio Vasquez. Wyatt Earp. Bob Dalton. Christian Madsen. Bill Doolin. Bill Tilghman. Heck Thomas.

Author : Robert Ward
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440533853

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Cattle Annie and Little Britches by Robert Ward Pdf

Based on the lives of two adolescent girls in the late 19th century who became infatuated with the Western outlaw heroes they had read about in Ned Buntline's stories and left their homes to join them. The outlaws the girls find are the demoralised remnants of the Doolin-Dalton gang, led by the aging Bill Doolin. Annie shames, and inspires the men, to become what she had imagined them to be. The younger sister Jenny finds a father figure in Doolin, who calls her Little Britches. Doolin's efforts to live up to the girls' vision of him lead him to be carted off in a cage to an Oklahoma jail where he waits to be hanged.

Author : Bill Brooks
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645407300

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Old Times by Bill Brooks Pdf

Author of the Dakota Lawman series As Nate Love placed the flowers on his murdered son’s grave, he thought that he shouldn't have had a son so late in his life. He wondered who it was would shoot that boy in the back over one damn cow? It was the cruelest of fates, he thought, not to know who did it. A dead boy should be able to tell who it was. There ought to at least be that kind of justice in the world. He knew there wasn't, though. He would have to find it for himself. But how could he do it alone? He wasn't what he once was; he was just old bones now.... That was when he went and wrote a letter to Monroe Hawks—"the meanest son of a bitch that ever lived." When they rode for Hanging Judge Parker, they were respected by the godfearing and the godless alike. But that was then.... Now, both are long past their prime. Both know that soon they are going to be facing younger, stronger, faster men. And both Monroe Hawks and Nate Love know they won't be coming back.... BILL BROOKS "HAS A KNACK FOR STORYTELLING." —Library Journal

Author : Bill Brooks
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645406761

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The Young Desperados by Bill Brooks Pdf

Teenagers Albert Sand and Ivory Cade learn of an old friend's murder and decide to earn the money for his burial when fate intervenes in the form of a wealthy banker whose wife was kidnapped by the outlaw killer One-Eye Texas Jack Crowfoot and his gang. The boys see their opportunity to get the banker's reward, return his wife, and earn enough money to bury their old pal, Gus Monroe. To accomplish their goals, they must prove wile and wit while dealing with such as Calamity Jane, Billy the Kid, and savage Indians—sometimes escaping with only the clothes on their back.

Author : Bill Brooks
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645408598

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The Righteous Revenge of Lucy Moon by Bill Brooks Pdf

When Lucy Moon learns of her mama's murder, she cuts short her honeymoon and returns to the Pistol Barrel of Oklahoma with her new husband in tow. It's a wild and raucous land full of the kind of gunfighters, backshooters, gamblers and pimps, anyone of whom could have shot Belle out of the saddle. Deter­mined to get revenge by whatever means necessary, Lucy never counted on being seduced by the mysterious half-breed Red Dog—who just might have been the assassin. But Lucy is determined to find out who the real killer of her mother is, even if blood needs to be spilled.