| A Sketch of Sam Bass, the Bandit, Volume 6 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Martin, Charles L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0806129158 ISBN-13: 9780806129150 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press OUR PRICE: $21.73 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1997 Annotation: Best known for his robbery of the Union Pacific at Big Springs, Nebraska, on September 19, 1877, Sam Bass is perhaps the most notorious Texas outlaw of the 1870s. Within four years he and his band robbed trains, stages, and stores from the Dakota Territory to the Mexican border. He was not a killer, and because the railroads and their high freight rates were unpopular, Bass quickly became a legendary hero. Nevertheless, Wells Fargo agents, railroad detectives, Texas Rangers, and posses of private citizens chased Bass from his hideout in Denton County, Texas, throughout the old Southwest until he was shot by Texas Rangers in an attempted bank robbery at Round Rock, Texas, in 1878. According to Ramon F. Adams, in his introduction, Charles L. Martin's account, first published in 1880, is the most complete of several contemporary books about the outlaw. For this edition, Robert K. DeArment updates the story of Sam Bass in a new foreword. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 96035363 |
| Series: Western Frontier Library |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 4.68" W x 7.48" (0.45 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Texas - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Sam Bass is perhaps the most notorious Texas outlaw of the 1870s. Within four years he and his band robbed trains, stages, and stores from the Dakota Territory to the Mexican border. He was not a killer, and because the railroads and their high freight rates were unpopular, Bass quickly became a legendary hero. Nevertheless, Wells Fargo agents, railroad detectives, Texas Rangers, and posses of private citizens chased Bass from his hideout in Denton County, Texas, throughout the old Southwest until he was shot by Texas Rangers in an attempted bank robbery at Round Rock, Texas, in 1878. |
Contributor Bio(s): Martin, Charles L.: - Charles L. Martin, a journalist who served on many Texas newspapers, once was called the "walking encyclopedia of Texas." |