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• Last Raid of the Daltons: A Reliable Recital of the Battle With the Bandits at Coffeyville, Kansas, October 5, 1892 (originally published 1892; reprinted with an added foreword 1954), by David Stewart Elliott (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself: Being an Autobiography of the Missouri Guerrilla Captain and Outlaw, His Capture and Prison Life, and the Only Authentic Account of the Northfield Raid Ever Published (Chicago: The Henneberyy Co., 1903), by Cole Younger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado (New York: Outing Pub. Co., 1907), by Emerson Hough
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Thrilling Events, Life of Henry Starr: Famous Cherokee Indian Outlaw Narrates His Many Adventures From Boyhood to Date (1914), by Henry Starr (page images at HathiTrust)

• Belle Starr, The Bandit Queen: The Career of the Most Colorful Outlaw the Indian Territory Ever Knew (published under "William Yancey Shackleford" pseudonym; Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, c1943), by Vance Randolph (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• Gun-Fighters of the Old West (published under "William Yancey Shackleford" pseudonym; Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, c1943), by Vance Randolph (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dave Rudabaugh, Border Ruffian (Denver: World Press, c1961), by F. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Younger Brothers: Their Life and Character (new edition of Appler's "The Guerrillas of the West", with an introduction by Rascoe; New York: F. Fell, c1955), by Augustus C. Appler, contrib. by Burton Rascoe (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado (New York: Outing Pub. Co., 1907), by Emerson Hough
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Lost River Trail (Philadelphia: H. Altemus Co., c1924), by Jessie Graham Flower (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Belle Starr, The Bandit Queen: The Career of the Most Colorful Outlaw the Indian Territory Ever Knew (published under "William Yancey Shackleford" pseudonym; Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, c1943), by Vance Randolph (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Thrilling Events, Life of Henry Starr: Famous Cherokee Indian Outlaw Narrates His Many Adventures From Boyhood to Date (1914), by Henry Starr (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life of Bob and Cole Younger With Quantrell: Daring and Startling Episodes in the Lives of These Notorious Bandits (Chicago: Regan Pub. Corp., ca. 1916), by Clarence E. Ray (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself: Being an Autobiography of the Missouri Guerrilla Captain and Outlaw, His Capture and Prison Life, and the Only Authentic Account of the Northfield Raid Ever Published (Chicago: The Henneberyy Co., 1903), by Cole Younger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Youngers' Fight for Freedom: A Southern Soldier's Twenty Years' Campaign to Open Northern Prison Doors, With Anecdotes of War Days (Columbia, MO: Printed for the author by E. W. Stephens Pub. Co., 1906), by W. C. Bronaugh
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  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Younger Brothers: Their Life and Character (new edition of Appler's "The Guerrillas of the West", with an introduction by Rascoe; New York: F. Fell, c1955), by Augustus C. Appler, contrib. by Burton Rascoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrated Lives and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James and the Younger Brothers, the Noted Western Outlaws (new edition; New York and St. Louis: N.D. Thompson and Co., 1882), by J. A. Dacus (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Border Bandits: An Authentic and Thrilling History of the Noted Outlaws, Jesse and Frank James, and Their Bands of Highwaymen (St. Louis: Historical Pub. Co., 1881), by James W. Buel (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• A Book of Remarkable Criminals, by H. B. Irving (Gutenberg text)
• A Book of Scoundrels, by Charles Whibley
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• She Stands Accused, by Victor MacClure (HTML at Virginia)

• She Stands Accused, by Victor MacClure (HTML at Virginia)

• Celebrated Claimants, From Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton (second edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1874) (Gutenberg text)

• Memoirs of ****, Commonly Known by the Name of George Psalmanazar, a Reputed Native of Formosa, Written by Himself, in Order to be Published After His Death (London: Printed for R. Davis, et al., 1765), by George Psalmanazar (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Murder for Profit (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1926), by William Bolitho (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth, by George Alfred Townsend (Gutenberg text)
• The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth: With a Full Sketch of the Conspiracy of Which He Was the Leader, and the Pursuit, Trial and Execution of His Accomplices (New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, ca. 1865), by George Alfred Townsend
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • photocopy edition: page images at HathiTrust

• Certain Other Countries: Homicide, Gender, and National Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Carolyn Conley (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Life of Savage, by Samuel Johnson (HTML at jacklynch.net)

• Miss Mary Blandy's Own Account of the Affair Between Her and Mr. Cranstoun, From the Commencement of Their Acquaintance in the Year 1746 to the Death Of her Father in August 1751, with All the Circumstances Leading to That Unhappy Event (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1752), by Mary Blandy (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Brooklyn Bridge Shooting: An Independent Review and Assessment (ca. 2000), by American Jewish Committee (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Brooklyn Bridge Shooting: An Independent Review and Assessment (ca. 2000), by American Jewish Committee (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Life of David Haggart, alias John Wilson, alias John Morison, alias Barney M'Coul, alias John M'Colgan, alias Daniel O'Brien, alias the Switcher: Written by Himself, While Under Sentence of Death (second edition; Edinburgh: W. and C. Tait, 1821), by David Haggart, ed. by George Robertson, contrib. by George Combe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Know Thy Enemy: Profiles of Adversary Leaders and Their Strategic Cultures (second edition, 2003), ed. by Barry R. Schneider and Jerrold M. Post (PDF files at af.mil)

• The Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why? (1999), by Rex A. Hudson (PDF at aclu.org)

• The Adventures of Ralph Rashleigh, A Penal Exile in Australia, 1825-1844 (1929 text), by James Tucker (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• Ralph Rashleigh (1952 text), by James Tucker (text at Gutenberg Australia)

• Intentions (London: Methuen and Co., 1913), by Oscar Wilde (Gutenberg text)
• Intentions: The Decay of Lying; Pen, Pencil and Poison; The Critic as Artist; The Truth of Masks (New York: Brentano's, 1905), by Oscar Wilde, contrib. by Percival Pollard
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• Capt. Cranstoun's Account of the Poisoning the Late Mr. Francis Blandy, of Henley upon Thames, Oxfordshire (London: Printed for R. Richards, ca. 1752), contrib. by Mary Blandy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life and Bloody Career of the Executed Criminal, James Copeland, the Great Southern Land Pirate (second edition; Jackson, MS: Pilot Pub. Co., 1874), by J. R. S. Pitts
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Life and Confession of the Noted Outlaw, James Copeland, Executed at Augusta, Perry County, Mississippi (c1909), by J. R. S. Pitts (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Last Public Execution in America, by Perry T. Ryan (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Autobiography of a Criminal (New York: Duffield and Co., 1930), by Henry Tufts, ed. by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Sketches of the Life of Joseph Mountain, a Negro, Who Was Executed at New-Haven, on the 20th Day of October, 1790, for a Rape, Committed on the 26th Day of May Last (New Haven, CT: T. and S. Green, 1790), by Joseph Mountain, ed. by David Daggett (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life, Last Words and Dying Speech of Stephen Smith, a Black Man, Who Was Executed at Boston This Day Being Thursday, October 12, 1797 for Burglary (1797), by Stephen Smith (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Trials and Confessions of Madison Henderson, Alias Blanchard, Alfred Amos Warrick, James W. Seward, and Charles Brown, Murderers of Jesse Baker and Jacob Weaver, as Given by Themselves; and A Likeness of Each, Taken in Jail Shortly after Their Arrest (St. Louis: Chambers and Knapp, 1841), ed. by A. B. Chambers, contrib. by Madison Henderson, James W. Seward, Alfred Amos Warrick, and Charles Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Through the Shadows With O. Henry (New York: H. K. Fly Co., c1921), by Al Jennings
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Life of Sile Doty, 1800-1876, a Forgotten Autobiography: The Most Noted Thief and Daring Burglar of His Time (originally published 1880; edition with a new foreword published Detroit: Alved of Detroit, 1948), by Sile Doty, ed. by J. G. W. Colburn, contrib. by Randolph Greenfield Adams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fighting Men of the Indian Wars: A Biographical Encyclopedia of the Mountain Men, Soldiers, Cowboys, and Pioneers Who Took Up Arms During America's Westward Expansion (Stillwater, OK: Barbed Wire Press, c1991), by Bill O'Neal (page images at Portal to Texas History)
• Heroes of the Plains: or, Lives and Wonderful Adventures of Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson, Capt. Payne, Capt. Jack, Texas Jack, California Joe, and Other Celebrated Indian Fighters, Scouts, Hunters and Guides; Including a True and Thrilling History of Gen. Custer's Famous "Last Fight" on the Little Big Horn, with Sitting Bull (New York and St. Louis: N. D. Thompson and Co., 1882), by James W. Buel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes of the Plains: or, Lives and Wonderful Adventures of Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson, Capt. Payne, "White Beaver", Capt. Jack, Texas Jack, California Joe, and Other Celebrated Indian Fighters, Scouts, Hunters and Guides (St. Louis and Philadelphia: Historical Pub. Co., 1883), by James W. Buel
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• One Side by Himself: The Life and Times of Lewis Barney, 1808-1894 (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), by Ronald O. Barney (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane, by Calamity Jane
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  • page images at HathiTrust
• Copies of Calamity Jane's Diary and Letters, Taken From the Originals Now On Exhibit at the Western Trails Museum, Billings, Montana (claimed Calamity Jane authorship disputed by historians; published ca. 1949), contrib. by Jean Hickok McCormick and Calamity Jane (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Life as an Indian: The Story of a Red Woman and White Man in the Lodges of the Blackfeet (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1907), by James Willard Schultz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Adventures of Buffalo Bill (New York et al.: Harper and Row, c1904; edition published after author's death), by Buffalo Bill (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Army Letters from an Officer's Wife (1871-1888), by Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe (Gutenberg text)
• An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1920), by Buffalo Bill, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick," by Himself (1907), by Nat Love (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Lone Star Cowboy: Being Fifty Years Experience in the Saddle as Cowboy, Detective and New Mexico Ranger, on Every Cow Trail in the Wooly Old West (1919), by Charles A. Siringo
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself: Being an Autobiography of the Missouri Guerrilla Captain and Outlaw, His Capture and Prison Life, and the Only Authentic Account of the Northfield Raid Ever Published (Chicago: The Henneberyy Co., 1903), by Cole Younger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado (New York: Outing Pub. Co., 1907), by Emerson Hough
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans, by Thomas James (HTML at xmission.com)

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