Outlaw Tales of California: True Stories of The Golden State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, and Cutthroats - Brossura

Enss, Chris

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0762738529 ISBN 13: 9780762738526

Casa editrice: Twodot, 2008

Riassunto

 
These original paperbacks are perfect for all ages, filled with action-packed biographies, rare historic photographs, and maps!                                                               TwoDot
 
OUTLAW TALES OF CALIFORNIA: True Stories of Notorious Robbers, Rustlers, and Bandits
Chris Enss
 
Sinister Spanish colonists, gritty gold rush miners, and slick Hollywood mobsters all make their appearances in this fascinating spin on California’s colorful history. Chris Enss is a screenwriter and author from Grass Valley, California.
 
 
OUTLAW TALES OF IDAHO: True Stories of Notorious Robbers, Rustlers and Bandits
Randy Stapilus
 
Ride with Idaho’s most famous horse thieves and cattle rustlers. Duck the bullets of murderers and hiss at lawmen turned rotten. This is a refreshing new look at the Gem State’s most infamous reprobates. Randy Stapilus is a newspaper columnist and historian from Boise, Idaho.
 
 
 
 
OUTLAW TALES OF TEXAS: True Stories of Notorious Robbers, Rustlers, and Bandits
Charles L. Convis
 
In these 15 riveting biographies, readers can splash across the Rio Grande with Santa Anna, crouch behind a bullet-riddled wall at the Alamo, and rob a bank with the infamous Sam Bass. Texans are proud of their renegades, and this fun book follows that spirited sense of pride. Charles L. Convis is a historical writer and retired lawyer who lives in Carson City, Nevada.
 
OUTLAW TALES OF OKLAHOMA: True Stories of Notorious Robbers, Rustlers, and Bandits
Robert Barr Smith
 
Oklahoma’s dusty frontier town and lonely cattle drives were at the very heart of the Wild West. In these compelling true stories, we see how the horse thieves and stagecoach robbers of the Sooner State terrorized the Great Plains. Robert Barr Smith is a law professor at the University of Oklahoma.
 
 
 
OUTLAW TALES OF SOUTH DAKOTA: True Stories of Notorious Robbers, Rustlers, and Bandits
Tom Griffith
 
From Crazy Horse and Custer to the notorious characters clanking their spurs up the boardwalks of Deadwood, these biographies build a gripping and comprehensive history of the Coyote State. Tom Griffith is a widely published author as well as a business owner in Rapid City, South Dakota.
 

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Chris Enss is an award-winning screen writer who has written for television, short subject films, live performances, and for the movies. Her research and writing and reveals the funny, touching, exciting, and tragic stories of historical and contemporary times.

Enss has done everything from stand-up comedy to working as a stunt person at the Old Tucson Movie Studio. She learned the basics of writing for film and television at the University of Arizona, and she is currently working with Return of the Jedi producer Howard Kazanjian on the movie version of The Cowboy and the Senorita, their biography of western stars Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

From Sacramento to Los Angeles, San Francisco to Nevada City, the frontier towns of California were populated by some of the toughest and most dangerous characters in the West. Tom Bell, the flat-nosed, felon doctor had his ?Catch me if you can!” motto finally catch up to him when he was hanged after a wild eighteen-month career as an outlaw. Lawman-gone-bad Henry Plummer got twisted up in a lascivious love affair. And bad luck bandit Dick Fellows never could catch a break?except for in his leg and ankle. From Charles Earl ?Black Bart” Boles to ?Rattlesnake Dick” Barter, Juan Flores to Joaquin Murieta, read about the most notorious desperados in the history of the Golden State. Through these astonishing true stories, Outlaw Tales of California introduces you to a state you thought you knew?and a West that was wilder than you’ve ever imagined.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Twodot
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0762738529
• ISBN 13: 9780762738526
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 108