Audacious Scoundrels - Stories of the Wicked West

Relying on secondary sources, magazine and newspaper articles, and personal accounts from those involved, this volume captures some of the sensational true stories that took place in the western United States during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century. The theme that runs through each of the stories is the general contempt for the law that seemed to pervade the culture at the time and the consuming desire to acquire wealth at any cost-what Geoffrey C. Ward has called "the disposition to be rich."

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By Steven L. Piott

Product details

• Authors: Steven L Piott, Steven L. Piott, Piott Steven L.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781493058648
• ISBN: 978-1-4930-5864-8
• No. of pages: 222
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; True Crime, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws, Local History, History of the Americas, US West, Western & Pacific Coast states