Synopses & Reviews
When it comes to crime, Missourians never did anything by half measures. Instead of an ordinary shootout with police, Missouri was the scene of one of the deadliest days in police history. Not content with simply being embroiled in the bloody Civil War, Missouri plunged into a bitter guerrilla conflict that started seven years earlier and ended two decades later. The average everyday gunman wasnt good enough for Missouri; it had to produce Jesse James and Cole Younger. Its no wonder that in the nineteenth century Missouri was dubbed the “Outlaw State.”
Here are a dozen tales of Missouris most famous criminals, and some not so famousa handful of portraits, warts and all, of some of the most daring and despicable Missourians who ever lived.
Synopsis
Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Missouri. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, stagecoach, and train robbers. Duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, hiss at lawmen turned outlaws. A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the Midwest.
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A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the Midwest.
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Meet the Most Notorious Missourians Who Ever Lived From Kansas City to St. Louis, Missouri never had to settle for your average everyday gunmennot when it had such outlaws as Jesse James and Cole Younger to call its own. Thats not to mention the Turk brothers Slicker War and the Young brothers shootout, which helped earn the Ozarks reputation as a hotbed of vigilantism. All this and moreincluding Missouris own mini version of the Civil War and the Union Station Massacreis yours for the reading in
Outlaw Tales of Missouri, which introduces twelve of the most dramatic events, and the most daring and despicable desperados, in the history of the Show Me State.
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True stories of the Show Me state’s most infamous crooks, culprits, and cutthroats.
About the Author
Sean McLachlan earned masters degrees in archaeology and journalism from the University of Missouri, Columbia. A regular contributor of history articles to
Missouri Life, he is the author of five previous books, including
It Happened in Missouri (TwoDot), and
Missouri: An Illustrated History. He divides his time between Columbia, Missouri, and Madrid, Spain.
Table of Contents
(i) Acknowledgements (ii) Introduction (1) The Yocum Dollar: Counterfeit Currency Worth More than the Real Thing (2) The Slicker War (3) William Quantrill: Terror of Civil War Missouri (4) The Other Harry Truman (5) The Legend of Frank and Jesse James (6) Cole Younger: Reformed Killer (7) Belle Starr: Lady Legend of Lawlessness (8) The Bald Knobbers: A Second Civil War in the Ozarks (9) The Gangs of St. Louis (10) The Pendergasts: Running a City Ran in their Family (11) Bloody Shootout in the Ozarks (12) The Union Station Massacre