Outlaws – Produced by Dave Alexander, music by Scott Buckley
Start your journey here through the tales of Old West Outlaws, Scoundrels, Lawmen turned bad, and wannabes. This is where we learn about the Bad Boys (and a few women). Not all of their tales started off bad but most led the hard life of westward expansion in sometimes lawless conditions. Frank James said it best – “Have you any idea of what a man must endure who leads such a life? No, you cannot. No one can unless he lives it for himself.”
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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.
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
Black Bart, Outlaw
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
Bob Dalton, leader of the outlaw Dalton Gang
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
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 Packer
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
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
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 March 2023.
“Where law ends, there tyranny begins.” — William Pitt
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