This book explores in depth the origins, development and prospects of outlawry and the relationship of outlaws to the social conditions of changing times. Throughout American history, larger-than-life brigands populate every period and every region. Often, because we hunger for simple justice, we romanticise them to the point of being unable to separate fact from fiction. Frank Richard Prassel brings this home in this examination of the concept of outlawry from Robin Hood, Dick Turpin and Blackbeard, through Jean Lafitte, ...
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This book explores in depth the origins, development and prospects of outlawry and the relationship of outlaws to the social conditions of changing times. Throughout American history, larger-than-life brigands populate every period and every region. Often, because we hunger for simple justice, we romanticise them to the point of being unable to separate fact from fiction. Frank Richard Prassel brings this home in this examination of the concept of outlawry from Robin Hood, Dick Turpin and Blackbeard, through Jean Lafitte, Pancho Villa and Billy the Kid, to more modern personalities such as John Dillinger, Claude Dallas and D.B. Cooper. A separate chapter on molls, plus equal treatment in the histories of gangs, traces women's involvement in outlaw activities. Prassel tells the folklore as well as the facts, even including an appendix of ballads by and about outlaws. He makes clear, however, how this motley group of bandits, pirates, highwaymen, desperadoes, rebels, hoodlums, renegades, gangsters and futitives - though they stand tall in myth - crumble in the light of truth. As he tells the stories, nothing confirms that Jesse and Frank James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Daltons, Al Capone, Ma Barker, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, Bill Doolin, Belle Starr or any other so-called good badmen, ever did anything not intended to enrich or otherwise benefit themselves. On the other hand, plenty of evidence, in the form of slain victims and ruined lives, shows how many ways they caused harm.
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