A dynasty of western outlaws
By: Paul I. Wellman ; foreword by Richard Maxwell Brown.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Outlaws -- West (U.S.) -- History.; Crime -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.; Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); West (U.S.) -- History.
Description: The organized gangs of robbers and killers who roamed the Midwest and Southwest from the 1860s to the 1930s went to the same school and were succored by each other's notoriety. So Paul I. Wellman makes a case for "the contagious nature of crime." William Quantrill and his guerrillas established a criminal tradition that was to link the Iames, Dalton, Doolin, Jennings, and Cook gangs; Belle and Henry Starr; Pretty Boy Floyd; and others in "a long and crooked train of unbroken personal connections."--From publisher description.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [355]-368.
Reprint. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1961.
"A Bison book."
Includes index.