Research Catalog

Title

The outlaw trail : a history of Butch Cassidy and his wild bunch / Charles Kelly ; introduction to the Bison Books Edition by Daniel Buck and Anne Meadows.

Author

Kelly, Charles, 1889-

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1996.

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Details

Description

xix, 374 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps; 21 cm.

Summary

Recounts the escapades of Butch Cassidy and the other members of his Wild Bunch, describing his most notorious crimes and favorite hideouts.

Subject

• Cassidy, Butch, 1866-
• 1860-1945
• Outlaws > West (U.S.)
• Crime > West (U.S.)
• West (U.S.) > History > 1860-1890
• West (U.S.) > History > 1890-1945

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "Bison books"--P. [i].
• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introducing Butch Cassidy -- The McCarty Gang -- Telluride bank robbery -- Oregon bank robberies -- Delta Bank robbery -- Cassidy meets the law -- Brown's Hole -- early history -- Brown's Hole -- outlaw period -- Montpelier Bank robbery -- Hole-in-the-wall -- Castle Gate payroll robbery -- Robber's Roost -- The Wild Bunch celebrates -- Joe Walker -- Gunplay Maxwell -- The law comes to Brown's Hole -- Two wars are declared -- The Battle of Roost Canyon -- The one-man army -- Two failures -- Wilcox Train robbery -- Folsom train Robbery -- George Curry cashes in -- Cassidy wants to reform -- Tipton train robbery -- Winnemucca bank holdup -- Wagner train robbery -- In South America -- Cassidy's last stand -- Finis to the Wild Bunch -- Is Butch Cassidy dead? -- The speckled nigger -- Shorty Wheelwright -- Sheriff John T. Pope -- Queen Ann -- Postscript.

ISBN

0803277784 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^95050396^

OCLC

• 33818660
• SCSB-11986151

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library