Macpherson Margaret A (1 results)
Language: English
Published by Lone Pine Publishing, Tustin, California, USA, 2002
- Softcover
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Sixrth Printing. 238 Pages. No defects noted. Interior text pages flawless. The Wild West was a place where gritty, unshaven, pistol-twirling outlaws, born with a taste for dirt and danger, could leap on a horse or get from a galloping steed onto a speeding train without loss of limb or lif…e. After the discovery of gold in California and parts north, and the Civil War, the West became home to settlers, gold-seekers and entrepreneurs, as well as highwaymen, killers and outlaws keen to make a quick buck and stay out of reach of the long arm of the law. Read all about the most famous outlaws and the detectives, rangers and lawmen who helped put a stop to them, one way or another: Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and the Wild Bunch, Jack Slade and Henry Plummer dubious lawmen in Montana, Billy the Kid pistol-twirling killer and cattle rustler tracked by Pat Garrett, Tiburcio Vasquez hero of his people in California, John Wesley Hardin the fastest draw in Reconstruction Texas, Jesse James notorious bandit and killer, Sam Bass train robber con man gambler and cowboy, Black Bart gentleman stagecoach robber in California undone by a hankie, Billy Miner the stagecoach and train robber with the twinkling eye, and the Dalton Gang brothers bent on revenge and robbery.
