The organized gangs of robbers and killers who roamed the Midwest and Southwest from the 1860s to the 1930s went to the same school and were succored by each other's notoriety. So Paul I. Wellman makes a case for "the contagious nature of crime." William Quantrill and his guerrillas established a criminal tradition that was to link the James, Dalton, Doolin, Jennings, and Cook gangs; Belle and Henry Starr; Pretty Boy Floyd; and others in "a long and crooked train of unbroken personal connections."
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The organized gangs of robbers and killers who roamed Midwest and Southwest from the 1860s to the 1930s went to the same school and were succored by each other's notoriety.William Quantrill and his guerrillas established a criminal tradition that was to link the James, Dalton, Doolin and others in "a long train of unbroken personal connections."
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"It is a thriller. . . but at the same time it is a cool, sane study of one of the long and important chapters of American crime."—Stanley Walker, New York Herald Tribune Lively Arts

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780803297098
Publisert
1986-04-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Bison Books
Vekt
431 gr
Høyde
203 mm
Bredde
133 mm
Aldersnivå
01, P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

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