The Story of the Outlaw By Emerson Hough Emerson Hough's factual account of the uniquely American criminal: the desperado, a frontier outlaw on the run.
Emerson Hough was an American author best known for writing western stories and historical novels.Emerson Hough (1857-1923) was an American author best known for writing western stories and historical novels.Career Hough was born in Newton, ...
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Superbly written and researched, this work set the bar for true stories of the west.A friend of Pat Garrett, the sheriff who killed Billy the Kid, Hough spent years in the west and wrote extensively about the frontier.
"Though the exploits of Western bad men have been greatly exaggerated in novels and films, many of these guys were pretty nasty characters, killing and stealing without remorse.
This volume includes biographies and narrative sketches that detail the lives and misdeeds of some of the most notorious desperadoes.
for the place, as bold and hardy as the bold and hardy men he was to meet and subdue, as skilled with weapons, as willing to die; and upheld, moreover, with that sense of duty and of moral courage which is granted even to the most ...
Rather than the romanticized versions of the old desperado and the cowboy-outlaw made popular in fiction, this is a real investigation into the actual killers and robbers who became known as outlaws in the Wild West.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
These tales chronicle the rugged lives and audacious crimes of bank and train robbers, cattle rustlers, horse thieves, and other desperados.
The hoof marks are beyond the Musselshell, over the Bad Lands and the coulees and the flat prairies; and far up into the land of the long cold you may see, even today if you like, the shadow of that unparalleled pathway, the Long Trail ...
"Besides revealing the facts behind mythic Western outlaws like Billy the Kid, William Clarke Quantrill, Cole Younger, Frank and Jesse James, and the Dalton Gang, and lawmen like "Wild" Bill...
The Story of the Outlaw is a classic American Wild West history text by Emerson Hough that examines the lives and legends of famous American outlaws.In offering this study of the American outlaw, the author constitutes himself no apologist ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado, With Historical Narratives of Famous Outlaws; the Stories of...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
In more than 110 years, Emerson Hough's classic work on the desperadoes of the Wild West has never lost its power to excite the reader. Superbly written and researched, this work set the bar for true stories of the west.
With historical narratives of famous outlaws ; the stories of noted border wars, vigilante movements and armed conflicts on the frontier.
The Story of the Outlaw is a classic study of desperadoes and outlaws in the American West, first published in 1905.
Recounted mainly by the outlaws themselves along with eyewitnesses to their deeds, these tales chronicle the lives and crimes of Billy the Kid, Frank and Jesse James, and other legendary figures of the Old West.