Henry Starr, Last Of The Real Badmen.

GLENN SHIRLEY

Publication: David McKay Company, Inc, 1965, New York

First edition. 8vo. Cloth, titles stamped in black on the spine, xi [3], 208 pp., foreword, illustrated from photographs, portraits, notes, index. Well-researched biography of this well-known train and bank robber. Starr shot and killed Deputy U.S. Marshall Floyd Wilson when Wilson attempted to arrest Starr in 1892. Henry Starr's life included numerous robberies, trials, imprisonments, 2 separate sentences to die on the gallows, Presidential commutation by Theodore Roosevelt, several attempts to "turn respectable," and his fatal wounding in a bank robbery in Arkansas in 1921. Six Guns 2010 : "Perhaps the most complete history of this outlaw to date." Fine, bright copy in price-clipped dust jacket.

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