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Billy the Kid and Jesse James Bill Markley

Billy the Kid and Jesse James By Bill Markley

Billy the Kid and Jesse James by Bill Markley


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Summary

Who was the biggest, baddest outlaw in the Old West? Billy the Kid or Jesse James? Which outlaw did the most to wreak havoc across the frontier? And which outlaw left behind the biggest legacy? Author Bill Markley takes on those questions and more in this thoughtful and entertaining examination of these legendary lives.

Billy the Kid and Jesse James Summary

Billy the Kid and Jesse James: Outlaws of the Legendary West by Bill Markley

Who was the biggest, baddest outlaw in the Old West? Billy the Kid or Jesse James?Bat Masterson or Wyatt Earp? Which outlaw did the most to wreak havoc across the frontier? And which outlaw left behind the biggest legacy? Author Bill Markley takes on those questions and more in this thoughtful and entertaining examination of these legendary lives.

Billy the Kid and Jesse James Reviews

There's hardly any overlap in the lives of the Frontier West's two most famous lawbreakers, who may have crossed paths only once, but by presenting the essential details of their colorful if short careers side by side, Bill Markley gives us a chance to contemplate and compare the pair and decide for ourselves which one we believe was the greatest outlaw. The author offers his own informed opinion in the afterword, but no matter how anyone stacks them up against each other or against the other badmen of the Wild West, Jesse and the Kid are the two that never ride off into the sunset of our imaginations. They stick with us forever, and they never grow old. -Gregory Lalire, editor of Wild West magazine and author of the 2019 historical novel Our Frontier Pastime, 1804-1815

About Bill Markley

History has always fascinated BILL MARKLEY leading to his participation in Dances with Wolves and four other films. Bill has written the novel Deadwood Dead Men, four Western nonfiction books including Old West Showdown with co-author Kellen Cutsforth, and articles for True West and Wild West magazines. A member of Western Writers of America, Bill writes WWA's Roundup Magazine's Wild Bill's Wild West column. In 2015 Bill was sworn in as an honorary Dodge City Marshal. Bill and his wife, Liz, live in Pierre, South Dakota, where they have raised two grown children.

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CIN1493038389G
9781493038381
1493038389
Billy the Kid and Jesse James: Outlaws of the Legendary West by Bill Markley
Used - Good
Paperback
Globe Pequot Press
2019-09-27
336
Short-listed for Will Rogers Medallion Award, Western Nonfiction 2020 (United States)
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