100 Oklahoma Outlaws, Gangsters, and Lawmen, 1839-1939
"Take[s] readers back to the untamed West when the pistol, the rifle, and the rope provided justice and only the hand-me-down stories divided the lawmen from the lawless."\ --ForeWord\ The period between 1839 and 1939 bore witness to the sometimes atrocious exploits of renegades and regulators around Oklahoma. The 100 profiles and biographical essays in this volume of popular history include Bonnie and Clyde, Belle Starr, Machine Gun Kelly, the James brothers, the Youngers, the Doolins, the...
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The period between 1839 and 1939 bore witness to the sometimes atrocious, sometimes humorous exploits of renegades and regulators in and around Oklahoma. The 100 profiles and biographical essays in this volume of popular history include Bonnie and Clyde, Belle Starr, Machine Gun Kelly, the James brothers, the Youngers, the Doolins, the Daltons, and numerous other well-known and unknown criminals and officials.From the revelry of whiskey towns to the shootouts, massacres, and misunderstandings of wild Oklahoma, Dan Anderson and Laurence Yadon present interesting and little-known facts about this romanticized era. Characters include such unlikely personalities as Jim Miller, the devout Methodist assassin, and Bud Trainor, a gang operator turned deputy U.S. marshal. Lloyd Barker, the founder of the Central Park Gang, became an assistant manager of a snack shop and was later gunned clown by his wife. Alvin Karpis, a former gangster, produced a successful autobiography about his imprisonment at Alcatraz.
Preface 7Introduction 9Rufus Buck: A Man Too Bad for Hollywood 11Oklahoma Assassins 25Raiders and Guerrillas 41Whiskey Towns of Oklahoma: Gunfights, Naked Men, and Debauched Women 45Billy's Best Friend 59Oklahoma Bad Girls 73Bonnie and Clyde and Them 103Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda 131The Adaptable Henry Starr 147Celebrity Outlaws 153Lone Wolves 171Kidnapping, Inc. 191Old Creepy 211Just Passing Through 225Profiles of Oklahoma Outlaws, Gangsters, and Lawmen: 1839-1939 235Notes 295Bibliography 309Acknowledgments 319Index 321
