THE OUTLAW YEARS; THE HISTORY OF THE LAND PIRATES OF THE NATCHEZ TRACE.

Reprint (originally published by The Macaulay Company in 1930). x, 308 pages plus unpaged b/w plates. Hardcover: H 21.25cm x L 14.25cm. No dust jacket (i.e. lacking). Brown cloth rubbed with some soiling and spotting; light sunning to spine and to rear board; slight fraying to spine ends with subtle glue repair to tear at head of front joint. Muted red top edge; deckle fore-edge. Bookseller ticket "Plantation Book Shop Natchez, Miss." affixed at front pastedown's bottom right corner; several leaves with light creases at corners; occasional light foxing spots to interior pages which otherwise remain clean. With endpaper maps, total of sixteen b/w plates including frontispiece all on unpaged leaves, Bibliography. Binding is firm. A very good- copy. Laid-in at pages 136-137 is plastic sleeve containing postally unused postcard with color photo of Natchez Under the Hill on recto and divided-back text on verso; postcard published by Deep South Specialties, Inc. of Jackson, Miss. and has "pre 1963" pencil note. Historian Robert Coates examines the history of the late eighteenth century and early to mid-nineteenth century land pirates which cursed both the Natchez Trace, the famous trail which ran from Natchez, Mississippi through the northwestern tip of Alabama to Nashville, Tennessee and the Wilderness Road which continued northward into Kentucky looping through Appalachia and ending in Knoxville. Travelers on the roads were subject to deprivations by notorious brigands including John Murrell and his gang, Joseph Hare, Samuel Mason, and bothers Micajah "Big" Harpe and Wiley "Little" Harpe.…