The Grey Fox: The True Story of Bill Miner, Last of the Old-Time Bandits de Dugan, Mark; Boessenecker, John - 1992

University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Norman OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. A Good copy in light gray cloth, in a Very Good dust jacket a bit sun-faded at the spine (with no tears or chips). Tanning/foxing at the outer edges of the text block, clean/unmarked within, and not ex-library.

UK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Hardcover. Used: Acceptable. Condition good, hardback with dust jacket ref ZKVQ. Of all the outlaws in the Old West - and there were many hundreds of them - Bill Miner, the last of the old-time bandits, came closest to matching the polularity of England's Robin Hood. Jesse James, Billy the Kid and John Wesley Hardin may have been better known, but none could command the reverence accorded Bill Miner by people in every walk of life, from businessmen to housewives. He had a magnetism like no other. Active for more than four decades, Miner began his criminal career in California in the 1860s and ended it in Georgia in 1911. He stole horses and robbed stagecoaches, and when railroad tracks replaced stage roads, he robbed trains. He was caught and imprisoned only to be released or escape and to rob again. He considered his victims to be corporations rather than people, and he did not consider it wrong to rob, for instance, the Canadian Pacific Railway, which he… Leer más

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo. Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. xxiv, 260 pages, [2]. Illustrated. Inscribed and signed by John Boessenecker on the dedication page.