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This collection of the author's selected essays reflect his wide-ranging interests in American colonial history, Afro-American history, the social sciences and American literature. Amongst his topics are capital punishment, the American anti-slavery movement and the cowboy as American hero.
Slavery --- Violence --- National characteristics, American. --- History. --- Historiography. --- United States --- West (U.S.) --- Race relations. --- Civilization.
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The organized gangs of robbers and killers who roamed the Midwest and Southwest from the 1860s to the 1930s went to the same school and were succored by each other's notoriety. So Paul I. Wellman makes a case for "the contagious nature of crime." William Quantrill and his guerrillas established a criminal tradition that was to link the Iames, Dalton, Doolin, Jennings, and Cook gangs; Belle and Henry Starr; Pretty Boy Floyd; and others in "a long and crooked train of unbroken personal connections."--From publisher description.
Outlaws --- Crime --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- United States Local History --- City crime --- Crime and criminals --- Crimes --- Delinquency --- Felonies --- Misdemeanors --- Urban crime --- Social problems --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Criminal law --- Criminals --- Criminology --- Transgression (Ethics) --- Bandits --- Brigands and robbers --- Outcasts --- History. --- History --- Social aspects --- West (U.S.)
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