The Top 5 Most Notorious Outlaws
The Top 5 Most Notorious Outlaws: Jesse James, Billy the Kid, John Dillinger, an by Charles River Editors
English | 8 Sept. 2013 | ISBN: 1492365505 | 126 Pages | EPUB | 2.71 MB
English | 8 Sept. 2013 | ISBN: 1492365505 | 126 Pages | EPUB | 2.71 MB
America has always preferred heroes who weren’t clean cut, an informal ode to the rugged individualism and pioneering spirit that defined the nation in previous centuries. The early 19th century saw the glorification of frontier folk heroes like Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone. After the Civil War, the outlaws of the West were more popular than the marshals, with Jesse James and Billy the Kid finding their way into dime novels. And at the height of the Great Depression in the 1930s, there were the “public enemies”, common criminals and cold blooded murderers elevated to the level of folk heroes by a public frustrated with their own inability to make a living honestly.