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Book Bandits

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric Hobsbawm
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2010-12-30
  • ISBN : 0297865315
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Bandits written by Eric Hobsbawm and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-12-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trailblazing study of the social bandit or rebel BANDITS is a study of the social bandit or bandit-rebel - robbers and outlaws who are not regarded by public opinion as simple criminals, but rather as champions of social justice, as avengers or as primitive resistance fighters. Whether Balkan haiduks, Indian dacoits or Brazilian congaceiros, their spectacular exploits have been celebrated and preserved in story and myth. Some are only know to their fellow countrymen; others such as Rob Roy, Robin Hood and Jesse James are famous throughout the world. First published in 1969, BANDITS inspired a new field of historical study: bandit history.

Book Bandits   Outlaws

Download or read book Bandits Outlaws written by Stewart Ross and published by Copper Beach Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines a number of noted outlaws in history, including Robin Hood, Jesse James, and Bonnie and Clyde.

Book Bandits and Outlaws

Download or read book Bandits and Outlaws written by Stewart Ross and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines a number of noted outlaws in history, including Robin Hood, Jesse James, and Bonnie and Clyde.

Book Missouri Outlaws  Bandits  Rebels   Rogues

Download or read book Missouri Outlaws Bandits Rebels Rogues written by Paul Kirkman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series title from The History Press website.

Book Bandit Nation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chris Frazer
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2006-01-01
  • ISBN : 0803220316
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Bandit Nation written by Chris Frazer and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the bandit in history and current legend, showing how those memories remain alive and well in Mexican society.

Book Outlaw Tales of Utah

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  • Author : Michael Rutter
  • Publisher : Falcon Guides
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780762724277
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Outlaw Tales of Utah written by Michael Rutter and published by Falcon Guides. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uncovers their astonishing true stories of the notorious Butch Cassidy, The Sundance Kid, Kid Curry, and Gunplay Maxwell, as well as those of equally raucous but lesser known outlaws and crimes from Utah history.

Book Missouri Outlaws

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  • Author : Paul Kirkman
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2018-03-05
  • ISBN : 1439664110
  • Pages : 155 pages

Download or read book Missouri Outlaws written by Paul Kirkman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether seen as a common criminal or Robin Hood with a six-shooter, the Missouri outlaw left an indelible mark on American culture. In the nineteenth century, Missouri was known as the "Outlaw State" and offered a list of lawbreakers like Jesse James, Bloody Bill Anderson, Belle Starr and Cole Younger. These notorious criminals became folk legends in countless books, movies and television shows. Author Paul Kirkman traces the succession of Missouri's first few generations and how each contributed to the making of some of the most notorious outlaws and lawmen in American history.

Book Arizona Outlaws and Lawmen

Download or read book Arizona Outlaws and Lawmen written by Marshall Trimble and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True stories of the wild and dangerous world of the Arizona Territory—includes photos. A refuge for outlaws at the close of the 1800s, the Arizona Territory was a wild, lawless land of greedy feuds, brutal killings and figures of enduring legend. These gunfighters included heroes as well as killers, and some were considered both. Bandit Pearl Hart committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies in the country, and James Addison Reavis pulled off the most extraordinary real estate scheme in the West. But with fearless lawmen like C.P. Owens and George Ruffner at hand, swift justice was always nearby. In this collection of true stories, Arizona’s official state historian and celebrated storyteller Marshall Trimble brings to life the rough-and-tumble characters from the Grand Canyon State’s most terrific tales of outlawry and justice.

Book The Border Outlaws

Download or read book The Border Outlaws written by James William Buel and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Border Bandits

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  • Author : James W. Buel
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release : 2022-07-21
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 117 pages

Download or read book The Border Bandits written by James W. Buel and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this historical book, Buel takes the reader on a journey through the actions of the most notorious outlaws of nineteenth-century America as they fought for the South in lightning strikes against the armies of the North, developing tactics that would come in handy later in their lives. Buel explains in the book how, after the war, the gang seamlessly transitioned from guerrilla warfare to bank robberies, evading capture and killing opponents. They couldn't keep eluding lawmen and vigilantes forever, as Buel vividly describes, the gang's eventual demise.

Book Property Outlaws

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  • Author : Eduardo M. Penalver
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2010-02-16
  • ISBN : 0300161239
  • Pages : 357 pages

Download or read book Property Outlaws written by Eduardo M. Penalver and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Property Outlaws puts forth the intriguingly counterintuitive proposition that, in the case of both tangible and intellectual property law, disobedience can often lead to an improvement in legal regulation. The authors argue that in property law there is a tension between the competing demands of stability and dynamism, but its tendency is to become static and fall out of step with the needs of society. The authors employ wide-ranging examples of the behaviors of “property outlaws”—the trespasser, squatter, pirate, or file-sharer—to show how specific behaviors have induced legal innovation. They also delineate the similarities between the actions of property outlaws in the spheres of tangible and intellectual property. An important conclusion of the book is that a dynamic between the activities of “property outlaws” and legal innovation should be cultivated in order to maintain this avenue of legal reform.

Book Bandits and Outlaws

Download or read book Bandits and Outlaws written by Stewart Ross and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines a number of noted outlaws in history, including Robin Hood, Jesse James, and Bonnie and Clyde.

Book Bad Company

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  • Author : Joseph Henry Jackson
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 1977-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803258662
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Bad Company written by Joseph Henry Jackson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Republishes profiles of Joaquin Murieta, Tom Bell, Rattlesnake Dick, Black Bart, Dick Fellows, and Tiburcio Vasquez

Book Outlaw Tales of the Old West  Fifty True Stories of Desperados  Crooks  Criminals  and Bandits

Download or read book Outlaw Tales of the Old West Fifty True Stories of Desperados Crooks Criminals and Bandits written by Erin H. Turner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of fifty outlaw tales includes well-knowns such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Frank and Jesse James, Belle Starr (and her dad), and Pancho Villa, along with a fair smattering of women, organized crime bosses, smugglers, and of course the usual suspects: highwaymen, bank and train robbers, cattle rustlers, snake-oil salesmen, and horse thieves. Men like Henry Brown and Burt Alvord worked on both sides of the law either at different times of their lives or simultaneously. Clever shyster Soapy Smith and murderer Martin Couk survived by their wits, while the outlaw careers of the dimwitted DeAutremont brothers and bigmouthed Diamondfield Jack were severely limited by their intellect, or lack thereof. Nearly everyone in these pages was motivated by greed, revenge, or a lethal mixture of the two. The most bloodthirsty of the bunch, such as the heartless (and, some might argue, soulless) Annie Cook and trigger-happy Augustine Chacón, surely had evil written into their very DNA.

Book The Great American Outlaw

Download or read book The Great American Outlaw written by Frank Richard Prassel and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores in depth the origins, development, and prospects of outlawry and of the relationship of outlaws to the social conditions of changing times. Throughout American history you will find larger-than-life brigands in every period and every region. Often, because we hunger for simple justice, we romanticize them to the point of being unable to separate fact from fiction. Frank Richard Prassel brings this home in a thorough and fascinating examination of the concept of outlawry from Robin Hood, Dick Turpin, and Blackbeard through Jean Lafitte, Pancho Villa, and Billy the Kid to more modern personalities such as John Dillinger, Claude Dallas, and D. B. Cooper. A separate chapter on molls, plus equal treatment in the histories of gangs, traces women's involvement in outlaw activities. Prassel covers the folklore as well as the facts, even including an appendix of ballads by and about outlaws. He makes clear how this motley group of bandits, pirates, highwaymen, desperadoes, rebels, hoodlums, renegades, gangsters, and fugitives—who stand tall in myth—wither in the light of truth, but flourish in the movies. As he tells the stories, there is little to confirm that Jesse and Frank James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Daltons, Pretty Boy Floyd, Ma Barker, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, Belle Starr, the Apache Kid, or any of the so-called good badmen, did anything that did not enrich or otherwise benefit themselves. But there is plenty of evidence, in the form of slain victims and ruined lives, to show how many ways they caused harm. The Great American Outlaw is as much an excellent survey on the phenomenon as it is a brilliant exposition of the larger than-life figures who created it. Above all, it is a tribute to that aspect of humanity that Americans admire most and that Prassel describes as a willingness "to fight, however hopelessly, against exhibitions of privilege."

Book Badasses of the Old West

    Book Details:
  • Author : Erin H. Turner
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2009-09-18
  • ISBN : 0762757574
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Badasses of the Old West written by Erin H. Turner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Badasses of the Old West brings together thirty-six tales of the worst (and best) robbers, rustlers, and bandits who shaped the history of the Wild West in one compelling volume. From the famous, such as Billy the Kid and the Wild Bunch, to the lesser-known but still colorful and wicked Charles Brown and Bud Stevens. Here are just some of the fascinating and forbidding faces you’ll meet: -Bud Stevens, whose murder of a cattle king’s son rang a death knell for an entire South Dakota town -William Quantrill, the terror of Civil War–era Missouri -Legendary bandits Frank and Jesse James -Cold-blooded Sam Brown, who sneered while cutting out a man’s heart but screamed in terror when the tables turned -Jack Slade, a composite of gentleman and murderer who was such an enigma across much of the West that he charmed both Mark Twain and Buffalo Bill Dust off your six-shooter and settle into your saddle because this collection compiles the stories of the most notorious black-hat wearers of a notorious age.

Book Bandits and Outlaws

Download or read book Bandits and Outlaws written by Stewart Ross and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Col illus facts and legends of famous and infamous outlaws. 8-11 yrs.