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John T. Waters
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Outgunned!
Outgunned!: True Stories of Citizens Who Stood Up
Outgunned!: True Stories of Citizens Who Stood Up to Outlaws-And Won
outlaws
Robert A. Waters
to Outlaws-And Won
true crime
true stories
weapons and warfare history
western outlaws
western shoot-'em-up
Product details
- ISBN 9781581823868
- Weight: 299g
- Dimensions: 163 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jul 2004
- Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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It's a classic story from hundreds of western shoot-'em-ups: a gang of outlaws rides into town, terrorizes local citizens, and finally meets their match when the heroic sheriff appears. In real life, it was different. Some of the most notorious western outlaws were killed or captured by townspeople. And the trend continued throughout the Prohibition era. OUTGUNNED! TRUE STORIES OF CITIZENS WHO STOOD UP TO OUTLAWS -- AND WON describes a dozen such cases. There's Jesse James, whose gang was decimated by armed citizens while the James-Younger Gang was attempting to rob a bank in Northfield, Minnesota. There's Tom Horn, assassin for the Wyoming cattle barons, who was shot by citizens during an ill-fated jailbreak. And there's George Birdwell, Pretty Boy"" Floyd's chief lieutenant; he and his partners were gunned down by outraged townspeople as they attempted to hold up a bank in the all-black town of Boley, Oklahoma. There's the notorious Dalton gang that entered Coffeyville, Kansas, one cold fall morning in 1892 and attempted to rob two banks at the same time; four of the outlaws were killed by armed citizens. Then there's Anthony Chebatoris, a Prohibition-era socialist who, after murdering an innocent bystander during an attempted bank robbery in Midland, Michigan, was shot by a dentist who kept a hunting rifle in his office.""
