Research Catalog

Title

• Desperate men : the James Gang and the Wild Bunch / James D. Horan ; introduction to the Bison books edition by Jim Dullenty.

Author

Horan, James D. (James David), 1914-1981

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1997], c1962.

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Details

Description

xiii, 391 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

True histories of western outlaws Jesse James and Butch Cassidy are paired in the classic Desperate Men. James D. Horan, the first researcher to be granted access to the long-sealed files of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, is able to show in graphic and unsentimental detail the bloody desperation of the James-Younger gang and the Wild Bunch.

Subject

• 1860-1945
• Cassidy, Butch, 1866-
• James, Frank, 1844-1915
• James, Jesse, 1847-1882
• Outlaws > West (U.S.) > History
• Pinkerton's National Detective Agency
• West (U.S.) > History > 1860-1890
• West (U.S.) > History > 1890-1945

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "Originally published in 1949. Reprinted from the revised and enlarged 1962 edition by Doubleday and Company, Inc., New York"--T.p. verso.
• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The rise and fall of Jesse James. The first Younger falls. The Northfield bank robbery. Cole and Jim come home. -Butch Cassidy and his "Wild Bunch." King of the rustlers. The train robber's syndicate. The battle of Hole in the Wall. The Wilcox train robbery. Gunfight at Turkey Canyon. -The curtain comes down. The Great Northern train robbery. Escape and capture. Manhunt. Bandidos ride! Gunfight at San Vicente.

ISBN

080327307X (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97026955^

OCLC

37220910

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library