The deadliest outlaws : the Ketchum gang and the Wild Bunch /

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After Tom Ketchum had been sentenced to death for attempting to hold up a railway train, his attorneys argued that the penalty was "cruel and unusual" for the offense charged. The appeal failed and he became the first individualand the lastever to be executed for a crime of this sort. He w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burton, Jeffrey, 1936-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, ©2009.
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:A.C. Greene series ; 8.
Temas:
Ketchum, Black Jack, > 1863-1901.
Ketchum, Black Jack, > 1863-1901 > Friends and associates.
Ketchum, Black Jack, > 1863-1901
Ketchum, Black Jack.
1800-1899
Geschichte 1880-1901.
Outlaws > West (U.S.) > Biography.
Gangs > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
Train robberies > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
HISTORY > State & Local.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Friendship
Frontier and pioneer life
Gangs
Outlaws
Train robberies
Outlaw
West (U.S.) > Biography.
West (U.S.) > History > 1860-1890.
États-Unis (Ouest) > Histoire > 1860-1890.
West United States
Texas
Frontier
collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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