SAM BASS & GANG
by Rick Miller
The exploits of the outlaw Sam Bass led to his legendary status of an amiable rogue who took on the widely disliked railroad corporations and who followed the code of the outlaw by refusing to give up his companions to the pursuing lawmen. Beginning his life of crime by robbing stagecoaches in the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory, Sam Bass and his gang were soon holding up trains in Nebraska and Texas.
The chase for Bass in 1878 throughout Texas was unequaled in the state's history and ended with the famous gunfight on the streets of Round Rock, Texas. Sam Bass & Gang cuts through the mythical to set the record straight. Years of research through the newspapers and public records of several states, through the national archives, through private collections, through the records of the Texas Rangers, and through all of the extant primary and secondary source material have enabled author Rick Miller to portray the history of Sam Bass accurately, but in so doing his narrative loses none of the drama of a stirring and exciting tale. This volume is destined to become the standard reference work for the legendary outiaw.
424 pps.,6 x 9, ill., biblio., index
