Tiger of the Wild Bunch: The Life and Death of Harvey "Kid Curry" Logan - Tapa blanda

Reseña del editor

Harvey "Kid Curry" Logan was introverted and slight, but a feared outlaw and member of Butch Cassidy's "Hole in the Wall" gang. Logan was the "tiger" of the wild bunch, taking part in any number of infamous train robberies. When Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid fled the country, Logan became the most wanted outlaw in the United States. He was arrested in 1903, but promptly escaped from his Tennessee prison. Was he later shot in Wyoming by a search posse? Or did he live to old age, as his family contends? Until now, very little has been documented about Logan. What was written in western histories in the 1960s was largely conjecture. With unique access to the research, author Gary Wilson paints a vivid portrait of the man who has eluded historians for so long. This is the fascinating, mysterious tale of one of the most famous gunfighters of the Old West.

Contraportada

A Short Temper and a Fast Gun

The days of the Wild West were numbered. The guns in Wyoming’s infamous range wars had gone silent, and the dust from the great cattle drives was slowly clearing. Yet in Montana’s Missouri River Breaks, a young man with a taste for violence was about ready to give the outlaw life one last try.

During his lifetime, Harvey ?Kid Curry” Logan became the most feared fugitive in America. From 1894 to 1904, he robbed banks and trains all across the West, eluding every posse that galloped his way. Quick to anger and tough as knotted rawhide, Harvey Logan aptly deserved the moniker bestowed upon him by historian James Horan, ?Tiger of the Wild Bunch.”

From Gary A. Wilson, author of Outlaw Tales of Montana and ?Long George” Francis, this is the definitive biography of one of the most dangerous men to ever grace a wanted poster.