Texas Bandits

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224 pages 2004

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Mona Sizer profiles a dozen notorious Texas outlaws and how they have been portrayed on the Silver Screen. Part I:Traveling through -- Pancho Villa -- "Viva Villa"--Bandits and ballads -- Jean Lafitte -- "The buccaneer"--The kith and kin of Jesse James -- "American outlaws" -- "Badman's territory" -- How to rob a train -- Part II: Gone to Texas -- Belle Starr -- "Montana Belle" -- Sam Bass -- "Calamity Jane and Sam Bass" -- How to hold up a stagecoach -- Cheno Cortina -- "One man's hero" -- Judge Roy Bean -- "The Westerner" -- How illiterate were the bandits? -- Part III: Born and bred in the light of the Lone Star -- John Wesley Hardin -- "The Lawless Breed" -- The Hollywood posse -- Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow -- "Bonnie and Clyde."

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