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A highly entertaining, illustrated look at the bad guys who robbed banks, trains, and stagecoaches--and who sometimes became American folk heroes--from the days of gangs on horseback roving and wielding Colts and Winchesters to the era of the clutch-popping Tommy-gunners. 120 black-and-white photographs.
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Roger A. Bruns is Deputy Executive Director of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission of the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
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Bruns (Knights of the Road) has written a history of eminent American bad guys from 1850 to 1940. An official of the National Archives, he not only covers the lives of the best-known bandits but also writes of the legend makers able "to turn their lives of crime and butchery into heroism." He begins with William Quantrill, who converted the Kansas-Missouri border area into a slaughterhouse before the Civil War, and goes on to treat Jesse and Frank James, the Younger and Dalton brothers, Sam Bass, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, John Dillinger and Ma Barker's gang. He shows how each outlaw tried to represent himself as a reincarnation of Robin Hood. Bruns also analyzes the reasons why Americans all but worshiped the bandit hero, seeing qualities of daring, courage, honor, resolve, kindness to travelers and chivalry toward women, not all of which are borne out by the facts. Illustrated.
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- PublisherCrown
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0517591537
- ISBN 13 9780517591536
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages250
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