Desperadoes of the Ozarks
By: Larry Wood
Publisher: Pelican Pub. Co.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Gretna, La
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781589809628
Subjects: Outlaws; Criminals; Anecdotes; History; Local History; Biography; Crime
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A horrible and fiendish murder and a swift and merited vengeance; title: Baxter Springs: first Kansas cow town; title: The notorious Bud Blount: they didn't know who they were foolin' with; title: George Hudson: autocrat on the criminal throne; title: Fatal affray in Douglas County; title: The daring and defiant Bob Layton; title: Britton the bold; title: Pink Fagg: a notorious gambler and desperate character; title: The Hudspeth-Watkins case: a criminal intimacy; title: The exciting pastime of shooting at one another; title: Olyphant: the last great Arkansas train robbery; title: The Meadows-Bilyeu feud: a pitched and bloody battle; title: The Missouri Kid and the Union Bank robbery; title: The lynching era in the Ozarks; title: The damnable act of one hell-born fiend; title: As mean as the devil would let him be: the last hanging in Arkansas; title: The greatest tragedy that ever befell Pleasant Hill; title: Lamar's lynching of lynch: the most dangerous man I ever saw; title: Bonnie and Clyde ride again; title: Wilbur Underhill: lover's lane bandit to tri-state terror; title: Whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap: the last legal hanging in Missouri; title: Bobby Camden: Robin Hood of the Ozarks.