Texas Bandits
Subtitle: Real to Reel
Publisher: Republic of Texas
Published: June 25, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781589070103
Subjects: Performing Arts/Dance; Outlaws; Entertainment & Performing Arts - General; Performing Arts; Biography / Autobiography; Texas; Performing Arts / General; Brigands and robbers; General; Biography; Mexico
Description: Mona Sizer profiles a dozen notorious Texas outlaws and how they have been portrayed on the Silver Screen. Part I:Traveling through -- Pancho Villa -- "Viva Villa"--Bandits and ballads -- Jean Lafitte -- "The buccaneer"--The kith and kin of Jesse James -- "American outlaws" -- "Badman's territory" -- How to rob a train -- Part II: Gone to Texas -- Belle Starr -- "Montana Belle" -- Sam Bass -- "Calamity Jane and Sam Bass" -- How to hold up a stagecoach -- Cheno Cortina -- "One man's hero" -- Judge Roy Bean -- "The Westerner" -- How illiterate were the bandits? -- Part III: Born and bred in the light of the Lone Star -- John Wesley Hardin -- "The Lawless Breed" -- The Hollywood posse -- Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow -- "Bonnie and Clyde."