Oklahoma outlaws
Subtitle: a graphic history of the early days in Oklahoma, the bandits who terrorized the first settlers and the marshals who fought them to extinction : covering a period of twenty-five years
By: by Richard S. Graves
Contributors: Newberry Library
Publisher: State Print. & Pub. Co.
Published: 1915
Place of publication: Oklahoma City
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 131
Subjects: Outlaws; Biography; Brigands and robbers; Criminals; Crime; Marshals; History
Other titles: American West (Marlborough, England); Passing of the Oklahoma outlaws (Motion picture)
Description: Touches upon most of the better-known Oklahoma outlaws and marshals such as Bill Tilghman, Chris Madsen, E.D. Nix, Heck Thomas, Bud Ledbetter, the Daltons, Ed Short, the Doolins, and many others. In 1914-1915 a group of old officers of Oklahoma, including Nix, Madsen, and Tilghman, organized a company and made a motion picture entitled THE PASSING OF THE OKLAHOMA OUTLAW. It was to be a true presentation of history, and Mr. Tilghman was chosen director. Mr. Graves was paid to write this little book from material given him by Mr. Tilghman, and the latter had it printed in a local print shop. It wa published to be sold at the theaters where the picture was exhibited.
Notes: Published to accompany the motion picture "The Passing of the Oklahoma Outlaws", produced in 1915.

Date of writing given as 1915 on p. 12.

Newberry Library, Chicago

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