Outlaw Tales of Arizona
True Stories of Arizona's Most Nefarious Crooks, Culprits, and Cutthroats
Cleere, Jan
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BOOK SUMMARY
Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Arizona, with compelling legends of Arizona Territory's most despicable desperadoes.
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From the Introduction
Uncovering the true history of an outlaw is like trying to tame a rattlesnake. Just when you think you have mastered the complete story of one of these desperadoes, some new piece of evidence surfaces that poisons your theories to the bone.
Contradictions abound when researching the lives and legends of elusive lawbreakers. It's these unsolved mysteries that keep historians and writers sequestered in dusty, spider-webbed archives thumbing with ink-stained fingers through crumbling newspapers and ancient parchments, searching for that elusive, as yet undiscovered document that will make their work more true and compelling than all previously written. Sometimes, I suspect these long-ago outlaws are sitting around their campfires in Hell laughing at those of us trying to make sense of the legacies they left behind.
Arizona claims its share of these varmints whose lives are complicated by myth, mystique and a goodly dose of mayhem. In fact, the abundance of crooks roaming through Arizona Territory in the rough and often violent 1800s was one of the factors that kept statehood at bay until 1912. Their misdeeds ran the gamut from train and stagecoach robbery, horse and cattle rustling, murder, larceny, and fraud. They came from across the nation looking for gold, silver, copper, and unsuspecting, naive individuals to rob, swindle and slay.
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After too many whiskeys, Bucksin Frank Leslie would stand his wife against a wall and shoot around her silhouette. Few jails could hold Augustine Chacon, who boasted of killing more than fifty men. Burt Alvord conducted business on both sides of the law. And while Charles Stanton sipped his favorite Irish whiskey, unsavory gunmen looted and killed under his orders.
Outlaw Tales of Arizona uncovers eleven true stories of the state's most notorious outlaws and events from the late 1800s. Massacres, mayhem, and mischief lurk between these pages, bringing back wild times when the law and the lawless were often in cahoots and no one was safe from the whim of a gun-slinging desperado.
AUTHOR BIO
Researcher and writer Jan Cleere concentrates her work on the desert southwest and the stories of individuals who contributed to its history, on either side of the law. A graduate of Arizona State University West with a degree in American Studies, she writes historical nonfiction for national and regional publications, and is the author of More than Petticoats: Remarkable Nevada Women.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction; Buckskin Frank Leslie (1842-1925); James Addison Reavis (1843-1908); Augustine Chacón (1856-1902); Fleming Parker (1865-1898); Burt Alvord (1867-1910); Apache Kid (Has-kay-bay-nay-ntayl) (1867-1910); Wickenburg Massacre (November 5, 1871); Pearl Hart (1871-1925); The Globe Fiends (1882); Charles P. Stanton (?-1886); Wham Paymaster Robbery (May 11, 1889); Smith Gang (1890-1902)
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0762728140
ISBN(13-digit): 9780762728145
Dewey Decimal: 364.1092/2791
Library of Congress: 2005026029
Book Publisher: Globe Pequot Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 114
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