Bad Company: The Story of California's Legendary and Actual Stage-Robbers, Bandits, Highwaymen and Outlaws from the Fifties to the Eighties [Paperback]

Joseph Henry Jackson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1977

Bad Company begins with Joaquin Murieta, whose myth started in the early 1850s and who remains California's most glamorous outlaw. Then there's the story of Dick Fellows, who would have been a quarter of a million dollars richer if it hadn't been for a horse. And Tom Bell, whom the historian H. H. Bancroft called the most "intelligent, accomplished and kind-hearted American gentleman who ever took the road in California." The fascinating account of Black Bart, whose terrifying reputation spread far and wide, includes samples of the poetry he left in treasure boxes he had emptied. Sheet-Iron Jack, an erstwhile barber; the brutal Juan Soto; Tiburcio Vasquez, a lady-killer whose career impressed Robert Louis Stevenson; Jack Powers, who held the village of Santa Barbara in the hollow of his hand; and Juan Flores, who stages a full-scale "revolution" and some other members of his goodly bad company.

Product Details

• Paperback: 346 pages
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press (July 1, 1977)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0803258666
• ISBN-13: 978-0803258662
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,582,620 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars 19th century California Outlaws, August 4, 2009

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This review is from: Bad Company: The Story of California's Legendary and Actual Stage-Robbers, Bandits, Highwaymen and Outlaws from the Fifties to the Eighties (Paperback)

Good book for anyone needing to research stage-robbers of the Old West, told with a lot of backup from Wells-Fargo Records, including the numerous aliases and mispellings of the outlaws of the day..