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

Sean Mclachlan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0762793961 ISBN 13: 9780762793969

Publisher: TwoDot, 2014

Synopsis

True stories of the Show Me state's most infamous crooks, culprits, and cutthroats.

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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 first came to Missouri to earn a master's degree in archaeology at the University of Missouri-Columbia and fell in love with the rich heritage of the state. He is the author of numerous books, including It Happened in Missouri (published by TwoDot Press) and the novel A Fine Likeness, set in Civil War Missouri.

About this edition

• Publisher: TwoDot
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0762793961
• ISBN 13: 9780762793969
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 176