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Gangsters, Mobsters & Outlaws of the 20th Century
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Featured Articles:
Burton Alvord – Lawman Turned Outlaw
The Apache Kid – Outlaw Legend of the Southwest
James Averell – Unjustly Hanged
Rattlesnake Dick Barter’s Stolen Loot
James Berry – A Little Known Outlaw From Missouri
Big Nose George Becomes a Pair of Shoes
Big Springs, Nebraska Train Robbery
Billy The Kid – Teenage Outlaw of the Southwest
Billy the Kid – Fatal Shot in the Dark by Pat Garrett
The Bloody Benders of Labette County, Kansas
The Bloody Espinosas – Terrorizing Colorado
Jules Beni – Corruption and Violence in Old Julesburg, Colorado
Bill Booth – A Notorious Slayer in Wyoming
Dutch Henry Born – Biggest Horse Thief in the American West
Charles “Black Bart” Bowles – The Poet Outlaw
Henry Newton Brown – Robbing the American West
Hoodoo Brown – Dodge City Gang Leader
Butch Cassidy, aka Robert Leroy Parker
Cattle Kate – Mystery of a Lynching
Cherokee Bill – Terror of Indian Territory
Will “Black Jack” Christian – Leading the High Fives Gang
Outlaw William Coe and His Missing Loot
Joel Collins – Cowboy Outlaw of the Black Hills
Bill Cook – Leading the Cook Gang in Oklahoma
Dalton Gang – Deadly Boys of Kansas
Big Jack Davis – Nevada Outlaw
Pony Deal – Outlaw & Gunfighter of the Southwest
The Notorious Dodge City Gang of Las Vegas, New Mexico
First Train Robbery On The Pacific Coast
Robert Ford – Jesse James’ Killer
Gangsters, Mobsters & Outlaws of the 20th Century
Charles A. “Jack” Harris – Saloon Keeper & Highway Man
Alexander Harvey – Desperado of the Fur Trade
Boone Helm – Murderer, Cannibal & Thief

H.H. Holmes
H. H. Holmes and the Murder Castle of Chicago
The Vicious Harpes – First American Serial Killers
John Heath and the Bisbee Massacre
Marion Hedgepeth – A Dapper Outlaw
Robert Woodson Hite – Member of the James Gang
John Henry “Doc” Holliday – Deadly Doctor of the West
H.H. Holmes and the Murder Castle of Chicago
Jimmy Hope – King of the Bank Robbers
The Lawless Horrell Boys of Lampasas, Texas
Jesse James – Folklore Hero or Cold-Blooded Killer?

The James-Younger Gang – Left to right: Cole” Younger,
Jesse Woodson James, Bob Younger, and Frank James.
The James-Younger Gang – Terrorism in the Heartland
Kit Joy – The Evolution of a Train Robber
Thomas “Black Jack” Ketchum – Unjustly Hanged
“Clubfoot” George Lane – Outlaw Shoemaker?
John M. Larn – Vigilante, Outlaw, Lawman
The Lee Gang – Murder and Thievery on the Texas Border
Buckskin Frank Leslie – Another Tombstone Rowdy
Harvey Logan, aka “Kid Curry” – Wildest of the Wild Bunch
Wild Bill Longley – A Dangerous Man in Dangerous Times
Lynchings & Hangings of America
The Lynching of “Big Steve” Long
Samuel “Wolfman” Mason Takes On the Natchez Trace
Mysterious Dave Mather – Lawman or Outlaw?
Gunplay Maxwell – Utah Gunfighter & Outlaw
Sherman McMasters – Outlaw or Lawman?
“Doc” Middleton – The King of Horse Thieves
Joaquin Murrieta – Patriot or Desperado?
Jim Murphy – Betrayer of the Bass Gang
Old Convict’s Gravesite Near Safford, Arizona
Alfred G. Packer – Colorado Cannibal
Henry Plummer – Sheriff Meets a Noose
Henry Plummer by Emerson Hough
Queho – Renegade Indian Outlaw
The Reno Gang & the First Big Train Robbery
Dirty Dave Rudabaugh – Feared by Billy the Kid
John Selman – Wicked Lawman and Vicious Outlaw
Shootout at the Pembina Post Office
Cyrus Skinner – Gold Field Outlaw
Sally Skull – The Scariest Siren in Texas
Joseph Slade – Hanged By Vigilantes
Pete Spence – Escaping the Wrath of the Earps
Belle Starr – The Bandit Queen
Henry Starr – Cherokee Bad Boy
Wham Paymaster Robbery Near Pima, Arizona
William “Russian Bill” Tattenbaum, the Noble Outlaw
John Turnow – The Wild Man of the Wynoochee
Big Dave Updyke – Crooked Sheriff of Ada County, Idaho
The Valenzuela Gang of Arizona
Tiburcio Vasquez – California Desperado
Hank Vaughan – The Unhappy Horse Thief
Vigilantes and Bad Men of Arizona
Charles Waggoner – Colorado Robin Hood
Fred Waite – Chickasaw Outlaw Turned Politician
John Joshua Webb – Lawman Turned Outlaw
George “Red Buck” Weightman – Vicious Oklahoma Desperado
Erastus “Red” Yager – Another Innocent Man?
Zip Wyatt – Notorious Oklahoma Hombre
Compiled by Kathy Alexander/Legends of America, updated December 2021.