The fiery true story of America's most famous radical fugitives, urgently and passionately told.
He insistedhe was there only because his publisher, Bennett Cerf, thought TVwas the future of books. Norman Mailer wrote about the evening in a long, strange, brilliant essay, “OfaSmall and Modest Malignancy.
This is a story about deluded mythmakers; clueless judges; morally bankrupt prosecutors; bad lawyers; daydream believers; and crooked cops. This is a story about police propaganda and gutless reporting.
A legendary man hunter and Pinkerton detective, Joe LeFors got Horn to sort of admit during a whiskey-soaked conversation that he might have shot the Nickell boy from three hundred yards with a Winchester .30-30-caliber rifle.
The basis for the hit TV series Gangland Undercover!
The days of the outlaws of the Wild West gradually came to an end at the turn of the nineteenth into the twentieth century. The legends, however, live on.
Maybe it was tension that propelled him, maybe a need to restore order to his chaos that made him spring without warning from his stool, ball his hands into fists, and move like a wrecking ball through the bar, targeting any patron who ...
In American Outlaw, Jesse reveals all: from his volatile upbringing and troubled relationship with his father to his wild days of car thieving and juvenile detention; from knocking heads as a rock ’n’ roll bodyguard to his destructive ...
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.
In Butch Cassidy, Charles Leerhsen shares his fascination with how criminals such as Butch deftly maneuvered between honest work and thievery, battling the corporate interests that were exploiting the settlers, and showing us in vibrant ...
The stories in this collection read like adventure fiction.