Pictorial history of the wild West : a true account of the bad men, desperadoes, rustlers, and outlaws of the old West--and the men who fought them to establish law and order
Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-250) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The Early Days of Outlawry in America -- The Doanes -- Sandy Flash Fitzpatrick -- The Cowboys of the Neutral Ground -- The Harpes -- Sam Mason -- Wholesale Rascal: John Murrel -- Joseph Hare and the Natchez Trace -- Captain Lightfoot -- The Loomis Gang -- Overture: The Forty-Niners and the California Vigilantes -- California Badman: Joaquin Murieta -- The Montana Vigilantes -- The Violent West -- The Bloodiest Man in America -- Dingus James and His Men -- America's Robin Hood -- "We Are Rough Men" -- The Youngers -- The Man Who Killed the Man Who Killed Jesse James -- Wild Bill Hickok (and the Wilder Stories) -- Buffalo Bill -- Annie Oakley -- Billy the Kid: Homicide and Folklore -- War in Lincoln County -- Pat Garrett on the Trail -- The Boy Who Never Grew Old -- Clay Allison, for Real -- The Reno Brothers -- The Farrington Brothers -- Hangovers from the Gold Rush -- Vasquez -- Rattlesnake Dick -- Old Bill Miner -- Black Bart: Poet Laureate of Outlary -- Sam Bass -- The Wild West -- Point 'Em North -- The Chisholm Trail The Lone Cowhand -- Stampeded -- The American Cowboy -- Cowboy Capers -- Cowtowns of the Old West -- The Story Book Marshal: Wyatt Earp -- Death in the Corral -- The MIdnight Assassins -- Doc Holliday: The Deadly Dentist -- Temple Houston: Oklahoma Lawman -- Terror from Texas: John Wesley Hardin -- The Sutton-Taylor Feud: Hardin Takes a Hand -- Calamity Jane: A Woman Low Down -- Scout of the Cumberland -- The Notorious Belle Starr -- China Polly -- Pearl Hart -- Roy Bean: Judge, Bartender and Jury -- The Hanging Judge -- The Saga of Cherokee Bill -- Captain Bunch -- Outlaw in a Derby Hat -- The Sontag Brothers -- "Terrible" Fred Wittrock -- The Burrows Brothers -- The Daltons: Angels and Outlaws -- Disaster at Coffeyville -- Bill Doolin and His Oklahombres -- Doolin Saves Tilghman's Life -- Doolin's Desperate Women -- He Used Trains Instead of Horses: Oliver Curtis Perry -- The Apache Kid -- Cattle Crisis and the Long Grim Aftermath -- Hole in the Wall -- They Hanged Kate High -- Banditti of the Plains Invasion of Wyoming -- The Wild Bunch -- Wild Bunch Rogues' Gallery -- The Tall Texan -- The Sundance Kid -- Kid Curry: Tiger of the Wild Bunch -- Etta Place, Associate of Outlaws -- Mad Dog of the Wild Bunch -- Butch Cassidy, Top Gun of the Wild Bunch -- Manhutners -- It Went Up With a Gun: The Wilcox Robbery -- The Strike at Tipton -- The Bunch's Last Strike -- Bandtis on Bicycles -- The Tall Texan Surrenders -- The Escape of Kid Curry -- The Wild West, New York, New York -- The Tiger Dies -- Butch Cassidy: Robin Hood of the Pampas -- Black Jack Ketchum: Let 'Er Go -- Tom Horn: Hired Killer -- The Hunt for Harry Tracy.