Great Stagecoach Robbers of the West
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co, 1962. First Edition. rust cloth, gilt & black lettering on spine, DJ chipped, torn, not price clipped, 8.5" x 5.75", 262 pages, indexed, illustrated. near fine / fair. Item #5568886
from the DJ front flap, "The road agents of the Western gold fields were a bold lot, courageous, ruthless, and, for the most part, cold blooded. They had to be, for it took nerve and skill to stop a team of charging horses. A few were sons of wealthy, cultured families: most of them were desperate men who turned to robbery only after all other means of making a livelihood had failed, or scoundrels in search of easy money. Black Bart, Tom Bell, and Dick Bellows were the most colorful of the road agents, but the others, perhaps less flamboyant and daring, were bizarre nonetheless."
Price: $25.00