Real Dirt On Americas Frontier Outlaws

Author : Jim Motavalli
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1423652614
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Dirt on America's Frontier Outlaws written by Jim Motavalli and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the real stories behind the infamous renegades of the West with “Motavalli’s entertaining treatment of this bunch of baddies” (HistoryNet.com). The rebels and bandits of the American West—like Billy the Kid, Jesse James, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid—have always made for thrilling tales of gunfights, heists, and outlaws. From the beginning, penny dreadfuls, Wild West shows, dime novels, and urban legends romanticized and magnified these renegades and their wild American spirits. These tales, however, don’t capture the truth of the West’s outlaws—nor do we hear about other lawless individuals, such as Pearl Hart, Belle Starr, or the Bloody Espinosas. Jim Motavalli returns with The Real Dirt on America’s Frontier Outlaws to give a real and more inclusive look at the old West and the dangerous figures that immortalized it.

Author : James Motavalli
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1423654587
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Real Dirt on America's Frontier Outlaws written by James Motavalli and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The vicious bad guys and bandits of the American West have always made for thrilling tales of gunfights, heists, and outlaws. From the beginning, penny dreadfuls, Wild West shows, dime novels, and urban legends romanticized and magnified these renegades and their wild frontier spirits. We still get chills down our spines from these tales, which are more fiction than fact. The Real Dirt on America's Frontier Outlaws separates myth from truth, showing the legends and the evidence side by side to give readers the real story of the Wild West and the dangerous figures who immortalized it. Learn the facts about Billy the Kid, Black Bart, John Wesley Hardin, Jesse James, and Butch Cassidy as well as some lesser known evildoers such as Isom Dart, Cherokee Bill, The Bloody Espinosas, and Hoodoo Brown among others."--from cover.

Author : Jim Motavalli
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1423652606
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Real Dirt on America's Frontier Legends written by Jim Motavalli and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a new Wild West series: Learn the real stories behind the larger-than-life characters of the West. Characters like Daniel Boone, Davy Crocket, “Buffalo Bill” Cody, and Jim Bridger have fascinated the people for generations. But in many cases, the stories we know of famous frontiersmen and women are no more true than the tale of Paul Bunyan. The tall tales won’t tell you, for instance, that David Crockett was a congressman, and Daniel Boone a Virginia legislator. Thanks to penny dreadfuls, Wild West shows, sensationalist newspaper stories, and tall tales told by the explorers themselves (James Beckwourth was a well-known teller of whoppers), what we know of these men and women is often more fiction than fact. The Real Dirt on America's Frontier Legends separates fact from fiction, showing the legends and the evidence side-by-side to give readers the real story of the old West.

Author : Michael A. Bellesiles
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813916033
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Outlaws written by Michael A. Bellesiles and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutionary Outlaws is both a biography of Ethan Allen and a social history of the conflict between agrarian commoners and their wealthy adversaries. Beginning his political career with a price on his head, Allen was transformed by the American Revolution into a national hero. In the same way he and his outlaws, the Green Mountain Boys, became exemplars of republican virtue.

Author : Michael A. Bellesiles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Outlaws written by Michael A. Bellesiles and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ken Lizzio
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493036580
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pirates of the Prairie written by Ken Lizzio and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of outlaws and vigilantes on the American frontier invariably calls to mind the Wild West of the latter nineteenth century. Yet, there was an earlier frontier, Illinois, that was every bit as wild and lawless as Dodge City or Tombstone. Between 1835 and 1850 several hundred outlaws and desperadoes descended on the prairie state, holding up stagecoaches, robbing homes and individuals, rustling cattle and horses, counterfeiting, murdering, and terrorizing residents with virtual impunity. In a state that was mostly wilderness, outlaws went undetected for years, often masquerading as law-abiding farmers and merchants while preying on isolated settlers and passing emigrants. If it was hard to detect the pirates, it was harder still to capture them and bring them to justice. With law enforcement incapable of checking outlaws, frustrated citizens eventually took matters into their own hands, administering frontier justice—vigilantism. Posses were formed; outlaws were swept from their lairs and whipped, shot, or hanged. Sometimes the miscreants got their just desserts; other times, the use of public tribunals to enact personal vendettas led to abuses, even chaos. Pirates of the Prairie brings the story of these wild times to life.

Author : Jim Motavalli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136534105
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forward Drive written by Jim Motavalli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive account of the past, present and future of the automobile examines the key trends, key technologies and key players involved in the race to develop clean, environmentally friendly vehicles that are affordable and that do not compromise on safety or design. Undertaking a rigorous interrogation of our global dependency on oil, the author demonstrates just how unwise and unnecessary this is in light of current developments such as the fuel cell revolution and the increasing viability of hybrid cars, which use both petrol and electricity - innovations that could signal a new era of clean, sustainable energy. The arguments put forward draw on support from an eclectic range of sources - including industry insiders, scientists, economists and environmentalists - to make for an enlightening read.

Author : Louis L'Amour
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553899554
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Outlaws of Mesquite written by Louis L'Amour and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2005-04-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the frontier bad men—like Leo Carver—a man so hated that everyone in the town of Canyon Gap planned to turn up for his hanging. Then meet those who dared to challenge them—like Marshal Lou Morgan, who tried to save his citizens from a goldmine swindler, only to learn that his own code of honesty made him the biggest sucker in town. There's champion rodeo rider Marty Mahan, called a coward because he was afraid of the bronc Ghost Maker—until he showed them the true color of his courage. Here are classic tales of the West from the storyteller who brings to vivid life the brave men of women who settled the North American frontier.

Author : Mark Dugan
Publisher : Swallow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales Never Told Around the Campfire written by Mark Dugan and published by Swallow Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers stories about outlaws in Texas, North Carolina, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Washington, Illinois, Colorado, Missouri, and Wyoming.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781928656128
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontier Colorado Gunfights written by and published by . This book was released on 1917-11-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century ago, disputes in Colorado were often settled with a six-shooter or a rifle. Often the judicial system was weak or unorganized. Some criminals got away. In these 31 true stories of frontier Colorado gunfights, the reader will sense the state¿s struggle to emerge from bouts of violence into a civilized society. Author Kenneth Jessen includes some of the West¿s most notorious characters such as Doc Holliday, gunfighter Clay Allison, ruthless Bob Meldrum and Bob Ford, the man who killed Jesse James.