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Outlaws, mobsters & crooks : from the Old West to the Internet
Title:
Outlaws, mobsters & crooks : from the Old West to the Internet
Publication Information:
Detroit : UXL, c1998-
Physical Description:
v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
V.1: Mobsters: Sam Barraglia -- Black Hand Society -- Al Capone -- Carlo Gambino -- Sam Giancana -- John Gotti -- Virginia Hill -- Meyer Lansky -- Purple Gang -- Bugsy Siegel -- Racketeers and gamblers: Frank Costello -- Legs Diamond -- Diamond Joe Esposito -- Louis Lepke -- Arnold Rothstein -- Robbers: Ma Barker -- Black Bart -- Bonnie and Clyde -- Margie Dean -- John Dillinger -- Belle Gunness -- Pearl Hart -- Patty Hearst -- Marion Hedgepeth -- Bill Miner -- Irene Schroeder -- V.2: Computer criminals: Marcus Hess -- Katya Komisaruk -- Kevin Mitnick -- Stanley Rifkin -- Jerry Schneider -- Spies: Aldrich Ames -- Christopher Boyce and Andrew Daulton Lee -- Juliet Stuart Poyntz -- Ethel and Julius Rosenberg --Elizabeth Van Lew -- Swindlers: Cattle Kate -- Cassie Chadwick -- D.B. Cooper -- Clifford Irving -- Sophie Lyons -- Ellen Peck -- Charles Ponzi -- Joseph Well -- Terrorists: JoAnne Chesimard -- Gordon Kahl -- Timothy McVeigh -- Diana Oughton -- V.3: Bandits and gunslingers: Clay Allison -- Richard Barter -- Sam Bass -- Billy the Kid -- Buck Gang -- Calamity Jane -- Butch Cassidy -- Curly Bill -- Wyatt Earp -- Jesse James -- Belle Starr -- Dallas Stoudenmire -- Pancho Villa -- Bootleggers: Two Gun Alterie -- Genna Brothers -- Machine Gun Kelly -- Owney Madden -- Bugs Moran -- Dutch Schultz -- Roger Touhy -- Hymie Weiss -- Pirates: Joseph Baker -- Blackbeard -- Anne Bonny -- Charles Gibbs -- V.4: Aldrich Ames -- Baby Face Nelson -- Jim Bakker -- Ronnie Biggs -- Blackbeard -- Ted Bundy -- Mark David Chapman -- Doc Holliday -- Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold -- Patty Hearst -- Alger Hiss -- Jimmy Hoffa -- Ted Kaczynski -- Ned Kelly -- Michael Milken -- Kevin Mitnick -- Frank NItti -- Marc Rich -- Alain Robert -- Susan Smith -- Kathy Soliah -- Robert Stroud -- Wild Bill Hickok -- V.5: Frank Abagnale, Jr. -- Lizzie Borden -- Christopher Boyce and Andrew Daulton Lee -- James Bulger -- Dalton Gang -- Byron de la Beckwith -- John Gotti -- Charles Keating, Jr. -- Sante and Kenneth Kimes -- Katya Komisaruk -- Nicholas Leeson -- Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb -- Timothy McVeigh -- Joaquin Murieta -- Raymond Patriarca -- Jonathan Jay Pollard -- Pretty Boy Floyd -- Eric Robert Rudolph -- Pamela Smart -- David Smith -- Sundance Kid -- William Sutton, Jr. -- Charles Whitman.
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Summary:
Vol. 1-3 presents the lives of seventy-five North American criminals including the nature of their crimes, their motivations, and information relating to the law officers who challenged them. V. 4 presents the life stories of twenty-three outlaws who lived (or committed crimes) from the seventeenth century to the present day. V.5 presents the life stories of twenty-three outlaws who lived (or committed crimes) from the nineteenth century to the present day.
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