A Sketch of Sam Bass The Bandit With an Introduction by Ramon F. Adams Foreword by Robert K. DeArment

Martin, Charles L.

ISBN 10: 0806129158 / ISBN 13: 9780806129150

Published by University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1997

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172 pages, illustrations. Volume # 6 of the Western Frontier Library Series, Six-Guns 1451.

Seller Inventory # 4058

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Sketch of Sam Bass The Bandit With an Introduction by Ramon F. Adams Foreword by Robert K. DeArment
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806129158
• ISBN 13: 9780806129150
• Binding: Original Wraps
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Gunmen

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Synopsis

Sam Bass is perhaps the most notorious Texas outlaw of the 1870s. Within four years he and his band robbed trains, stages, and stores from the Dakota Territory to the Mexican border. He was not a killer, and because the railroads and their high freight rates were unpopular, Bass quickly became a legendary hero. Nevertheless, Wells Fargo agents, railroad detectives, Texas Rangers, and posses of private citizens chased Bass from his hideout in Denton County, Texas, throughout the old Southwest until he was shot by Texas Rangers in an attempted bank robbery at Round Rock, Texas, in 1878.

About the Author

Charles L. Martin, a journalist who served on many Texas newspapers, once was called the “walking encyclopedia of Texas.”