附註:Reprint. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1961.
"A Bison book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-368) and index.
The bloody chain -- "Order no. 11" and the aftermath -- The wild riders of Missouri -- Northfield--and "the dirty little coward" -- A brushwood courtesan -- "To beat Jesse James" -- The Oklahoma "long riders" take over -- To the bloody end -- The hanging judge does his duty -- Amateur outlaws--and the death of a marshal -- Automatics and automobiles -- Public enemy no. 1.
摘要: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 Iames, 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."--Publisher description
