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A Sketch of Sam Bass, the Bandit: A Graphic Narrative : His Various Train Robberies, His Death, and Accounts of the Death of His Gang and Their History
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.… (altro)
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Foreword [by Robert K. DeArment] Seventy-six years after the book's first publication in 1880, the University of Oklahoma Press reissued Charles L. Martin's A Sketch of Sam Bass, the Bandit, with an insightful introduction by Ramon F. Adams, the foremost authority on Western outlaw-lawman literary history.
Introduction [by Ramon F. Adams] During the short criminal career of Sam Bass, and immediately afterward, there were four books written about him, all now exceedingly rare.
CHAPTER I The Boyhood of Bass The hero of our "over true tale," Sam Bass, first saw the light in Indiana, he being a native of Lawrence County in that state.
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He was attacked with sore eyes and the physician prescribed atropia, he was poisoned by it and died in convulsions.
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.
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