LEADER 00000cam 2200625Li 4500 001 ocn785781242 003 OCoLC 005 20160518074851.1 006 m o d 007 cr cn||||||||| 008 080116s2008 iluab ob s001 0ceng d 019 743204246|a816849738|a923493642 020 9780252093753|q(electronic bk.) 020 0252093755|q(electronic bk.) 035 (OCoLC)785781242|z(OCoLC)743204246|z(OCoLC)816849738 |z(OCoLC)923493642 040 E7B|beng|epn|erda|cE7B|dOCLCQ|dGPM|dOCLCQ|dN$T|dJSTOR|dP@U |dDKDLA|dOCLCQ|dOCLCF|dOCLCO|dYDXCP|dOCL|dOCLCO|dIDEBK |dCOO|dOCLCO|dEBLCP|dOCLCO|dOCLCQ|dOCLCO 043 n-us-il|an-us-wi 049 GTKE 050 4 F546.M39|bH35 2008eb 082 04 977.3/0410922|aB|222 100 1 Hallwas, John E. 245 10 Dime novel desperadoes :|bthe notorious Maxwell brothers / |cJohn E. Hallwas. 264 1 Urbana :|bUniversity of Illinois Press,|c2008. 300 1 online resource (xiv, 402 pages) :|billustrations, maps 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-379) and index. 505 0 ""Cover""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Prologue""; ""1. The Maxwell Family Moves West""; ""2. The Maxwells in Troubled Fulton County""; ""3. The Maxwells in McDonough County""; ""4. Law and Order, and Prison Life""; ""5. The Maxwell Brothers Become Outlaws""; ""6. The Great Escape�and Recapture""; ""7. Prison Time and Justice Issues""; ""8. Lon's Struggle to Go Straight""; ""9. The Wisconsin Desperadoes""; ""10. The Gunfight at Durand""; ""11. The Great Manhunt""; ""12. Another Gunfight�and the Renewed Manhunt""; ""13. Ed's Capture and Lon's Escape"" 505 8 ""14. The Desperado and the Public""""15. The Lynching at Durand""; ""16. The Lynching Controversy and Durand's Fate""; ""17. The Mysterious Fate of Lon Maxwell""; ""Epilogue: The Story Life of the Maxwell Brothers""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""Illustrations follow page 108 and 218"" 520 This thrilling historical true crime narrative recovers the long-forgotten story of Ed and Lon Maxwell, outlaw brothers from Illinois who once rivaled Jesse and Frank James in national notoriety. Growing up hard as the sons of a tenant farmer, the Maxwell brothers embarked on a life of crime that captured the public eye. Made famous locally by newspapers that dramatized crimes and danger, the brothers achieved national prominence in 1881 when they shot and killed Charles and Milton Coleman, lawmen trying to apprehend them. Public outrage sparked the largest manhunt for outlaws in American history, involving some twenty posses who pursued the desperadoes in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, and Nebraska. Nevertheless, the daring desperadoes were eventually portrayed as heroes in sensationalistic dime novels. A stunning saga of robbery and horse stealing, gunfights and manhunts, murder and mob violence, Dime Novel Desperadoes also delves into the cultural and psychological factors that produced lawbreakers and created a crime wave in the post-Civil War era. Every overview and encyclopedia of American outlaws will need to be revised, and the fabled "Wild West" will have to be extended east of the Mississippi River, in response to this riveting chronicle. With more than forty illustrations and several maps that bring to life the exciting world of the Maxwell brothers, Dime Novel Desperadoes is a new classic in the annals of American outlawry. 600 30 Maxwell family. 600 37 Maxwell family.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00212152 648 7 1800 - 1899|2fast 650 0 Outlaws|zIllinois|vBiography. 650 0 Outlaws|zWisconsin|vBiography. 650 0 Brothers|zIllinois|vBiography. 650 0 Brothers|zWisconsin|vBiography. 650 7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY|xHistorical.|2bisacsh 650 7 HISTORY|zUnited States|xState & Local|xGeneral.|2bisacsh 650 7 HISTORY|zUnited States|xState & Local|xMidwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)|2bisacsh 650 7 Brothers.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00839665 650 7 Outlaws.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01049233 651 0 Illinois|vBiography. 651 0 Wisconsin|vBiography. 651 0 Illinois|xHistory|y19th century. 651 0 Wisconsin|xHistory|y19th century. 651 7 Illinois.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01205143 651 7 Wisconsin.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204595 655 7 Biography.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423686 776 08 |iPrint version:|aHallwas, John E.|tDime novel desperadoes.|dUrbana : University of Illinois Press, 2008 |w(DLC) 2008002174 914 ocn785781242 994 93|bGTK
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