Dan Anderson
Ten Deadly Texans
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A lighthearted history of ten of Texas's most notorious outlaws, including Clyde Barrow and a bank robber dressed as Santa Claus.The Wild Westerners were a tough breed. They started young and tended to die young, grow wilder, or fizzle into oblivion. Those outlaws that had the most feuds, gunfights, and robberies within the state lines are profiled here along with their associates, enemies, and accomplices. A rough chronological order of events spanning from pre-Civil War to 1935 tracks significant people and events.With so few lawmen available to police the state, troublesome youths quickly developed into heinous individuals. John Wesley Har…
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A lighthearted history of ten of Texas's most notorious outlaws, including Clyde Barrow and a bank robber dressed as Santa Claus.The Wild Westerners were a tough breed. They started young and tended to die young, grow wilder, or fizzle into oblivion. Those outlaws that had the most feuds, gunfights, and robberies within the state lines are profiled here along with their associates, enemies, and accomplices. A rough chronological order of events spanning from pre-Civil War to 1935 tracks significant people and events.With so few lawmen available to police the state, troublesome youths quickly developed into heinous individuals. John Wesley Hardin killed a fellow classmate in a one-room schoolhouse, and eight-year-old James Miller was arrested for murdering his own grandparents. Beginnings and endings for each individual varied. While Sam Bass and Bonnie Parker were cut down in their twenties, Dock Newton didn't rob his last train until age seventy-seven. Other members of the Barrow Gang lived into their fifties and sixties after transforming themselves from dangerous criminals to ordinary citizens.Texans are often described as being larger than life. Their lives were legendary, their demeanor solid, their illegal activities dramatic and varied from beginning to end. The same lighthearted take on Western history that permeated Dan Anderson and Laurence J. Yadon's previous works resonates in their latest popular history. True stories, tall tales, and numerous anecdotes comprise this book of ten of the deadliest outlaws to cross the Texas line. Praise for Ten Deadly TexansPicking the top ten of virtually anything is difficult if not impossible, but [Yadon and Anderson] have presented a strong argument that this grouping belongs at the top of any list of deadly fighters. In their own way, each one chose a deadly path filled with violence, bloodshed, high drama, and excitement. -Chuck Parsons, author of John B. Armstrong: Texas Ranger and Pioneer RanchmanA well-researched and highly readable account of the Lone Star State's meanest men and women. -Mike Cox, author of The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900Yadon and Anderson have done their homework to separate the truth from the legend, because not only are they good historians, they know that the real story is quite often better than the legend. Ten Deadly Texans takes you from the Civil War to the Great Depression, from cow ponies and six-guns to Ford V-8s and automatic weapons, through the real lives of some of Texas's most notorious sons. -James R. Knight, author of Bonnie and Clyde: A Twenty-First-Century Update
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Weitere Autoren: Yadon, Laurence / Smith, Robert Barr (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4556-1282-6
- EAN: 9781455612826
- Produktnummer: 36849565
- Verlag: Arcadia Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 340 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Dan Anderson is a former newspaper journalist and photographer for Pryor, Oklahoma's, Daily Times. His main emphasis in reporting was on crime, cops, and court cases. Anderson has been honored with awards from both the Oklahoma Press Association and Associated Press Oklahoma for his writing and photography. Laurence Yadon is an attorney, mediator and arbitrator. He teaches mediation at Tulsa Community College. He gives presentations on various legal subjects, Oklahoma history, and crime history. A lifelong student of American history, Yadon has a special interest in the Southwest. Anderson and Yadon are also the authors of 100 Oklahoma Outlaws, Gangsters, and Lawmen: 1839-1939 and 200 Texas Outlaws and Lawmen: 1835-1935.
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