Hang on to your wallet—and watch your neck! The most notorious outlaws were known for their fearless drive, their quick shot with a pistol, their odd trademarks, and their way of escaping the law over and over again. Are you brave enough to read on?

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Western outlaws terrorized the country during the late 1800s and early 1900s, robbing stagecoaches, banks, trains and merchants. While they were fearsome, some became folk heroes and legends. The killer of Jesse James was vilified as a coward, while the man he killed was worshipped by man even though he had killed several men. Billy the Kid's reputation outgrew his actual deeds. Legend says he killed 21 men in his 21-year life time. The actual number if believed to be five. The west's fastest gun was not an outlaw. He wa an FBI agent called "Jelly" Bryce. He could drop a coin from shoulder height, draw and shoot it before it reached his waist.

The construction of a railroad bridge over the Thief River Canyon has fallen prey to sabotage, conspiracy, and gunman. Gene Autry in his role as special agent, realizes all too soon that the theThief River outlaws will stop at nothing in their plan to cause the destruction of the sorely needed railroad bridge.

Loyal subjects, watch out! Some of history's royal leaders were just as vicious as they were powerful. These kings and queens stole, tortured, and murdered. Read on to discover the gruesome ways these rulers terrorized their enemies, their own people, and even their own blood.

Robbery, smuggling, gambling—gangsters did it all. They fought the law. They fought each other. And not all of them made it out alive. Find out the true stories of the United States' most feared hoodlums and mob bosses. Learn how a two-bit car thief built a criminal empire—and how the mob's top man wound up in prison. Are you bold enough to read on?

James Bond may be one of the good guys, but the spies in this book definitely aren't—nor are the traitors and assassins! Crack open this book to uncover more secrets about history's most terrible assassins, traitors, and spies.

Uncontrollable hallucinations, anorexic demons, and revolting apparitions, center stage a period in the 1800s already guilt-riddled with a moral sense of judgment. Allyall will love A Gunslingers Affliction, never falter, for the moment, antiquity lives in allyall. Ride along with Frank and Tom McLaury as they discover a mountain from Hell, and gold streaming down for the taking ... except for a horrifying creature thrashing down the mountain HEADING STRAIGHT FOR THEM... Frank McLaurys unique fast draw left a man dead in West Texas. Forced to go on the dodge from the Texas Rangers, posses, bounty hunters, demons, himself, and guilt ... he seeks refuge in the wilderness. Befriended by another desperado likewise on the dodge, saved Franks sanity. Franks physical hardship and struggles with confrontations of life in the wilderness ..., beset only by the tenderness of a gorgeous Mexican girl he rescues from a notorious gang of outlaws ... falls in love...

This is the best of the Society's papers over the past three years—from lynchings to el pato boat building; from sunbonnets to hammered dulcimers; from jokes about droughts and lawyers to tales of folk, gospel and blues music; from gravemarkers to bottle trees, and more.

True stories of the wild and dangerous world of the Arizona Territory—includes photos. A refuge for outlaws at the close of the 1800s, the Arizona Territory was a wild, lawless land of greedy feuds, brutal killings and figures of enduring legend. These gunfighters included heroes as well as killers, and some were considered both. Bandit Pearl Hart committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies in the country, and James Addison Reavis pulled off the most extraordinary real estate scheme in the West. But with fearless lawmen like C.P. Owens and George Ruffner at hand, swift justice was always nearby. In this collection of true stories, Arizona’s official state historian and celebrated storyteller Marshall Trimble brings to life the rough-and-tumble characters from the Grand Canyon State’s most terrific tales of outlawry and justice.