Outlaws of the Wild West

Terry C. Treadwell

• Publisher: Frontline Books
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781526782373
• eBook ISBN:
  9781526782380
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

This true crime history of the American Frontier separates fact from fiction with in-depth profiles of thirty-eight career criminals and infamous outlaw gangs.
In the years following the American Civil War, the country's western frontier was home to a prodigious number of myth-making cowboys, infamous gunslingers, saloon madams, and not always law-abiding lawmen. But the romantic mystique of these individuals and the time in which they lives is largely the product of novelists and filmmakers. In Outlaws of the Wild West, Terry Treadwell presents the real stories behind such legends as Billy the Kid, Butch Cassidy, the Dalton Brothers, and others—as well as their lesser-known but equally criminal peers.
Here are the stories of William Clark Quantrill and his Confederate Army unit, Quantrill's Raiders, who turned hit-and-run raids into a way of life; Henry Starr, the Native American career criminal who went on to play himself in the movie of his life; Ann and Josie Bassett, the sisters who defended their ranch from cattle barons with the help of Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch; and many more.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: William Clarke Quantrill
• Chapter 2: Sarah Catherine Quantrill
• Chapter 3: The James Boys
• Chapter 4: Bill Doolin
• Chapter 5: Henry Starr
• Chapter 6: Belle Starr
• Chapter 7: The Wild Bunch
• Chapter 8: Thomas ‘Black Jack’ Ketchum
• Chapter 9: John King Fisher
• Chapter 10: Henry Plummer
• Chapter 11: Sam Bass
• Chapter 12: Billy the Kid
• Chapter 13: Jefferson ‘Soapy’ Smith
• Chapter 14: Crawford ‘Cherokee Bill’ Goldsby
• Chapter 15: Charles E. Bolton/Boles, ‘Black Bart’
• Chapter 16: ‘Big Nose’ George Parrott
• Chapter 17: The Evans Gang
• Chapter 18: The Rufus Buck Gang
• Chapter 19: Clay Allison
• Chapter 20: The ‘Cowboys’
• Chapter 21: The Dalton Brothers
• Chapter 22: The Female Outlaws
• Chapter 23: Ned Christie
• Chapter 24: William Longley
• Chapter 25: ‘Shotgun’ John Collins
• Chapter 26: Tiburcio Vasquez
• Chapter 27: Dan Bogan
• Chapter 28: Reuben Burrow
• Chapter 29: Cullen Montgomery Baker
• Chapter 30: Bill Posey
• Chapter 31: William ‘Curly Bill’ Brocius
• Chapter 32: John Larn
• Chapter 33: Isom Prentice Olive (aka Print Olive)
• Chapter 34: Jim ‘Deacon’ Miller
• Chapter 35: William ‘Billy’ Thompson
• Chapter 36: The Rogers Brothers
• Chapter 37: Ann Bassett
• Chapter 38: Morris ‘Railroad Bill’ Slater
• Conclusion
• Bibliography