Outlaw Tales of Missouri: True Stories of the Show Me State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, and Cutthroats - Softcover

McLachlan, Sean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0762749024 ISBN 13: 9780762749027

Publisher: TwoDot Books, 2009

Synopsis

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 wasn’t good enough for Missouri; it had to produce Jesse James and Cole Younger. It’s no wonder that in the nineteenth century Missouri was dubbed the “Outlaw State.”

 

Here are a dozen tales of Missouri’s most famous criminals, and some not so famous—a handful of portraits, warts and all, of some of the most daring and despicable Missourians who ever lived.

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From the Back Cover:

Meet the Most Notorious Missourians Who Ever Lived From Kansas City to St. Louis, Missouri never had to settle for your average everyday gunmen?not when it had such outlaws as Jesse James and Cole Younger to call its own. That’s 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 more?including Missouri’s own mini version of the Civil War and the Union Station Massacre?is 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.
|Meet the Most Notorious Missourians Who Ever Lived From Kansas City to St. Louis, Missouri never had to settle for your average everyday gunmen—not when it had such outlaws as Jesse James and Cole Younger to call its own. That’s 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 more—including Missouri’s own mini version of the Civil War and the Union Station Massacre—is 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.

About the Author:

Sean McLachlan earned master’s 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: TwoDot Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0762749024
• ISBN 13: 9780762749027
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224