The deadliest outlaws [electronic resource] : the Ketchum gang and the Wild Bunch / Jeffrey Burton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burton, Jeffrey, 1936-

Series:

A.C. Greene series ; 8.

A.C. Greene series ; no. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Outlaws--West (U.S.)--Biography.

Outlaws.

Gangs--West (U.S.)--History--19th century.

Gangs.

Train robberies--West (U.S.)--History--19th century.

Train robberies.

Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.).

Frontier and pioneer life.

West (U.S.)--Biography.

West (U.S.).

West (U.S.)--History--1860-1890.

Ketchum, Black Jack, 1863-1901.

Ketchum, Black Jack.

Ketchum, Black Jack, 1863-1901--Friends and associates.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (561 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the late nineteenth century Tom Ketchum and his brother Sam formed the Ketchum Gang with other outlaws and became successful train robbers. This book presents the definitive truth about Ketchum and numerous other outlaws, including Will Carver and Butch Cassidy.

Contents:

1. Meet the gang

2. I could kill a buzzard a-flying

3. Vagrant years

4. Will, Laura, and Ben: the course of true love?

5. Three murders and a dead ringer

6. Easy money and hard riding

7. Crossed trails

8. The Steins pass imbroglio

9. Framed

10. Dynamite and six-shooter

11. Separate ways

12. Another incident at Twin Mountains

13. Bullets in Turkey Creek Canyon

14. The sixteenth of August

15. Dead to rights

16. Points of law

17. Atkins saddles the ocean

18. An anniversary for George Scarborough

19. Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and Will Carver

20. Before he could cock his pistol

21. Off with his head

22. Empty saddles and lonely graves

23. Myth, mistake, and muddle.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-88974-5

9786612889745

1-57441-356-2

1-4416-7868-9

OCLC:

680227685