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Tiger of the Wild Bunch: The Life and Death of Harvey "Kid Curry" Logan
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #131679 in Books
- Published on: 2007-10-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 240 pages
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From the Back Cover
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.
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Customer Reviews
Good document of HL's life
I have been waiting for this book for a number of years, and was so happy when it finally came out. The book is well-written and I think does a good job of telling the reader where and when things happened. The reader does have to understand that there are historical gaps that the researcher cannot fill in. For example, the real character of Logan is not very well explored. You can reconstruct the fact that he was not a very good man, and was someone you would do well to avoid. Also, the author says that the romance of the outlaw trail was what Logan wanted (as a younger man anyway) and that is why he did some of the things he did. Well, maybe. He did read a lot of dime novels when he was young. I do want to congratulate the author on pulling together a good, readable book on a difficult subject, and on being very fair about whether or not Logan was actually killed in 1904. I recommend this book to anyone that is at all interested in the subject of the waning days of the Old West outlaw era, and in one of the worst outlaws that ever rode the trail.
