Outlaw Tales of California: True Stories Of The Golden State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And Cutthroats

by Chris Enss

Overview

Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of California 2, with compelling legends of the Golden State's most despicable desperadoes. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, and hiss at lawmen turned outlaws.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762772346
Publisher:	Globe Pequot
Publication date:	09/03/2013
Series:	Outlaw Tales
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Chris Enss is a New York Times best-selling author who has been writing about women of the Old West for more than thirty years. She has penned more than fifty published books on the subject. Her work has been honored with nine Will Rogers Medallion Awards, two Elmer Kelton Book Awards, an Oklahoma Center for the Book Award, three Foreword Review Magazine Book Awards, the Laura Downing Journalism Award, and a WILLA Award from Women Writing the West for Best Scholarly Nonfiction Book. Enss’s most recent works are The Widowed Ones: Beyond the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Along Came a Cowgirl: Daring and Iconic Cowgirls of Rodeos and Wild West Shows, Straight Lady: The Life and Times of Margaret Dumont “The Fifth Marx Brother,” and The Doctor Was A Woman: Stories of the First Female Physicians on the Frontier.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction x

Tom Bell 1

Tiburcio Vasquez 12

John Allen 22

Juan Soto 32

Henry Plummer 40

Charles Earl "Black Bart" Boles 50

Jesús Tejada 61

Juan Flores 68

"Rattlesnake Dick" Barter 76

John and George Sontag and Chris Evans 85

Dick Fellows 93

Joaquin Murieta 101

Jack Powers 113

James Gilbert Jenkins 123

Bibliography 135

Index 139

About the Author 146