California Desperadoes

Author : William B. Secrest
Publisher : Quill Driver Books
ISBN 13 : 9781884995194
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California Desperadoes written by William B. Secrest and published by Quill Driver Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early outlaws tell their own raw tales of holdups, shootouts, and desperate flights from the law. Witness the cruel confessions of California bandits during the opening days of the Gold Rush, stage robbers, and California highwaymen. These tales of harrowing and sometimes hilarious antics are accompanied by many rare photographs.

Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
ISBN 13 : 0793301661
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California Bandits, Bushwackers, Outlaws, Crooks, Devils, Ghosts, Desperadoes and Other Assorted and Sundry Characters! written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives some anecdotes on some of California's lesser known criminals. Also includes some word game.

Author : Ron Hansen
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480423874
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desperadoes written by Ron Hansen and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVRon Hansen’s engrossing novel of the violent life and criminal exploits of the Dalton gang, as remembered by its last surviving member/divDIV From his home in Los Angeles, an aging Emmett Dalton reminisces about his glory days in America’s Wild West. Now sixty-five years old, and a Hollywood fixture, he makes a comfortable living selling stories of his earlier exploits to movie studios. But years before, he rode with his two brothers—charming, handsome, charismatic Bob, and the cold-eyed killer Grat, so wild and unpredictable that even his own family was afraid of him—committing brazen acts of robbery, bootlegging, and murder. As the last surviving member of the infamous Dalton gang, it’s Emmett’s responsibility to keep their legend alive. He has resolved to tell the full truth about the fabled career of the three criminal brothers and Eugenia Moore, the former schoolmarm who was an indispensable partner in their crimes, even if that truth turns out to be a darker, more painful, and less heroic picture than Hollywood’s moguls would make it out to be./divDIV /divDIVThe critically acclaimed debut novel by bestselling author Ron Hansen, Desperadoes is a masterwork of historical fiction that brings a fabled era of American outlaws and violence to breathtaking life./div

Author : W. P. Bartlett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Happenings: a Series of Sketches of the Great California Out-of-doors written by W. P. Bartlett and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jim Gregory
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439663009
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book San Luis Obispo County Outlaws written by Jim Gregory and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-09 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California was a wild and lawless place in the 1850s, and San Luis Obispo County was no exception. Outlaws and bandits passed along the El Camino Real, now Highway 101, leaving a trail of victims. Despite attempts to stem the tide of crime with a vigilante committee and a string of executions, notorious men continued to be drawn to the central coast well into the next century. The James brothers, the Daltons and even Al Capone made their mark here, while lawmen worked to tame this piece of the western frontier. Author Jim Gregory details nefarious activities lost to time.

Author : William B. Secrest
Publisher : Arthur H. Clark Company
ISBN 13 : 9780870622090
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lawmen & Desperadoes written by William B. Secrest and published by Arthur H. Clark Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William B. Secrest
Publisher : Quill Driver Books
ISBN 13 : 9781884995408
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When the Great Spirit Died written by William B. Secrest and published by Quill Driver Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most persistent enemy of the native Californians was the firmly rooted white philosophy which preached that, one way or another, the Indian was doomed. Beyond the callous references to "Diggers" and "Poor Lo", the single most important catchword of the period was "extermination." It was used early and often and picked up by the newspapers and repeated in the army reports, letters, government documents, and journals of the time. It was a word that set the stage for slaughter. When the Great Spirit Died is a sad and tragic story that will haunt our country forever.

Author : Ruth E. Mather
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold Camp Desperadoes written by Ruth E. Mather and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Terry Smyth
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 014378238X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australian Desperadoes written by Terry Smyth and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coves - San Francisco's first organised-crime gang - were Australians: men and women with criminal careers in Australia who had come to the US, mostly illegally, during the gold rush. The Coves had come not to dig for gold but to unleash a crime wave the likes of which America had never seen. Robbery, murder, arson and extortion were the Coves' stock-in-trade, and it was said that the leader of the gang, Jim Stewart, had killed more men than any man in California. The gang's base, in the waterfront district, came to be known as Sydney Town. The area was a no-go zone for police - many of whom were in Stewart's pocket anyway - so, just as Capone would one day rule Chicago, the Coves ruled San Francisco. And more than once, just to make sure there was no doubt that Frisco was their town, they burnt it down. The Coves were hated and feared by the respectable citizens of San Francisco - who derisively called them 'Sydney Ducks' but never to their faces - and, realising that the forces of the law could not, or would not, take them on, decided lynch law was the only solution, and formed a vigilante group. The streets of San Francisco became a battlefield as the Coves and the vigilantes fought for control of the city, with gunfights and lynchings almost daily spectacles as the police stood idly by. Jim Stewart was arrested in Sacramento for killing a sheriff, but escaped to be involved in one the most celebrated cases of mistaken identity in the annals of American crime. When the smoke cleared, the Coves' reign of terror was over. Some were strung up from storefronts in the street, some fell in a deadly gunfight with Jonathan R. Davis, one of the fastest guns in the west, others escaped capture and returned to Australia. The story of the Sydney Coves is little-known, fascinating and well worth telling.

Author : William B. Secrest
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780935269178
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Trails written by William B. Secrest and published by . This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: