Teenaged Terrorists
Scar the Old West
“From 1894 to 1895, organized bands of renegades and fugitives from justice swept the nations of the Five Civilized Tribes… These were the waning years of Isaac Charles Parker’s tenure as judge of the United States district and circuit courts for the Western district of Arkansas at Fort Smith… Cormac McCarthy, philippa gregory, toni morrison, walter mosley, jonathan franzen, louis l’amour, western novel, westerns, barry hannah, william faulkner, Chuck Palahniuk, Margaret Atwood, books that would make great movies, Zane, african american novel, american literature, african american books, african american bestsellers, NY Times bestseller list, Amazon best sellers, kindle best sellers, historical novel, best selling fiction, native american fiction, true crime novel, ken follett, the warmth of other suns, black writers, black novels, african american literature, discover great new writers, black history, african american history, american history, american west, old west, Ralph Ellison, per petterson, august wilson, harvard alumni, western writers, black books, black history, turn of the century america, gay authors, gay writers, native american literature, western fiction, african american fiction, native american fiction, western fiction, black fiction, literary fiction, literary historical fiction, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Hanging Judge
“The Daltons met disaster while robbing two banks in Coffeyville, Kansas in 1892. The Henry Starr gang was broken up in 1893, and Starr himself languished in jail at Fort Smith…The Bill Cook-Cherokee Bill marauders looted and killed for six months… before being brought to an inevitable end…
“It was the five-member Rufus Buck gang, however, who wrote the most frightening, if not the most heinous, chapter in Indian Territory outlawry.”
- Glenn Shirley, “Thirteen Days of Terror: The Rufus Buck Gang in Indian Territory”
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