The Bandit Kings: From Jesse James to Pretty Boy Floyd

by Roger A. Bruns

A highly entertaining, illustrated look at the bad guys who robbed banks, trains and stagecoaches--and who sometimes became American folk heroes--from the days of gangs on horseback roving and wielding Colts and Winchesters to the era of the clutch-popping Tommy-gunners. Photos.

Genres: Nonfiction, History

250 pages, Hardcover

First published July 4, 1995

About the author

Roger Bruns (b. 1941) is an author and the former deputy director for the National Archives and Records Administration of the United States.

Reviews

[Steve · Rating 1 out of 5]

Sad little book, the author makes these murderers and thieves put as heroic figures.
In the very first chapter, he stated that the anti slavery forces were the aggressors in the Kansas-Missouri War, when every other historian knows it was the scumbag racist traitors who instigated the violence.
The book did not get better from there.