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• Jack Harkaway Among the Brigands (Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., n.d.), by Bracebridge Hemyng (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jack Harkaway's Escape from the Brigands: Being the Conclusion of "Jack Harkaway Among the Brigands" (Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., n.d.), by Bracebridge Hemyng (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tom Tufton's Travels, by Evelyn Everett-Green (Gutenberg text)
• The Adventures of Jack Pomeroy: A Book for Boys, by Peter William Darnton (page images at ufl.edu)
• Billy Mink (Boston: Little, Brown,and Co., 1925), by Thornton W. Burgess, illust. by Harrison Cady (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Motor Girls Through New England: or, Held by the Gypsies (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1911), by Margaret Penrose (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Motor Girls Through New England: or, Held by the Gypsies (New York: Goldsmith Pub. Co., c1911), by Margaret Penrose (Gutenberg text)
• Lost in the backwoods, by E. C. Kenyon, illust. by W. Rainey (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Corner House Girls Solve a Mystery: What It Was, Where It Was, and Who Found It, by Grace Brooks Hill, illust. by Thelma Gooch (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mary Louise Adopts a Soldier, by L. Frank Baum and Emma Speed Sampson, illust. by Joseph W. Wyckoff (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Tragedy of Wild River Valley, by Martha Finley (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Corner House Girls on a Houseboat: How they sailed away, what happened on the voyage, and what was discovered, by Grace Brooks Hill, illust. by Thelma Gooch (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson; Or, Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow, by Laura Dent Crane (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Automobile Girls at Newport; Or, Watching the Summer Parade, by Laura Dent Crane (Gutenberg ebook)
• Story told to a child (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., limited, n.d.), by Francis Vacher (page images at Florida)
• On the Irrawaddy (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896), by G. A. Henty and Trow Directory, illust. by William Heysham Overend and Swantype (page images at Florida)
• The gold thread (London: Charles Burnet & Co., 1891), by Norman Macleod, illust. by John MacWhirter and Robert Paterson (page images at Florida)
• The history of Ali Baba and the forty thieves (London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1895), illust. by Herbert Granville Fell and Robert Anning Bell (page images at Florida)
• The resolute Mr. Pansy (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1898), by John Trowbridge, illust. by Victor A Searles (page images at Florida)

• Jack Harkaway and His Son's Adventures in Australia (complete; Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., n.d.), by Bracebridge Hemyng (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Blue Dwarf: A Tale of Love, Mystery, and Crime, Introducing Many Startling Incidents in the Life of That Celebrated Highwayman, Dick Turpin (3 volumes in 1; London: Hogarth House, ca. 1870), by Percy B. St. John (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Lives and Exploits of the Most Noted Highwaymen, Robbers, and Murderers, of All Nations: Drawn From the Most Authentic Sources and Brought Down to the Present Time (Hartford: E. Strong, 1836), by Charles Whitehead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authentic History of Sam Bass and His Gang (originally published 1878, attributed to "A Citizen of Denton County" and later to Bates; reprinted Bandera, TX: Frontier Times, 1950), by Edmond Franklin Bates (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life and Adventures of Sam Bass, the Notorious Union Pacific and Texas Train Robber (Dallas: Dallas Commercial Steam Print, 1878)
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• Three Months Passed in the Mountains East of Rome, During the Year 1819 (1820), by Maria Callcott
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• Sam Bass, the Train Robber: The Life of Texas' Most Popular Bandit (published under "Harvey N. Castleman" pseudonym; Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, c1944), by Vance Randolph
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• Chapters in an adventurous life; Sir Richard Church in Italy & Greece (W. Blackwood and sons, 1895), by E. M. Church (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il brigantaggio nello stato pontificio; cenno storico-aneddotico dal 1860 al 1870. (Stabilimento tipografico dell' Opinione, 1897), by Carlo Bartolini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le brigandage dans les états pontificaux. Mémoires de Gasbaroni, célèbre chef de bande de la province de Frosinone (E. Dentu, 1867), by Pierre Masi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Train robberies, train robbers, and the "holdup" men. (Arno Press, 1974), by William Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brigand life in Italy : a history of Bourbonist reaction (Hurst and Blackett, 1865), by A. Maffei and Marc Monnier (page images at HathiTrust)
• An enquiry into the causes of the late increase of robbers, &c. (Printed for A. Miller, 1751), by Henry Fielding (page images at HathiTrust)
• The outlaws of Cave-in-Rock; historical accounts of the famous highwaymen and river pirates who operated in pioneer days upon the Ohio Mississippi rivers and over the old Natchez trace (The Arthur H. Clark company, 1924), by Otto A. Rothert (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rise and fall of Jesse James (Blue ribbon books, 1926), by Robertus Love (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hand of glory and further grandfather's tales and legends of highwaymen and others collected by the late R. Blakeborough (G. Richards limited, 1924), by Richard Blakeborough and John Fairfax Blakeborough (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treasure express; epic days of the Wells Fargo (The Macmillan company, 1938), by Neill C. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railway robberies: the summing up of chief justice Wilde: notes of the trial, December 1846, Wareham v. Prance, Nash, & Collard: original documents and correspondence, confessions of the depredators, the evidence of Garratt and Maynard, with summary of remarks on the cases of Garratt, Maynard, Farr, &c. &c. (Printed by W.M'Ewan], 1847), by Henry Gregory, Thomas Wareham, and Vaughan Prance (page images at HathiTrust)
• A complete history of the lives and robberies of the most notorious highwaymen, footpads, shoplifts, & cheats of both sexes, wherein their most secret and barbarous murders, unparalleled robberies, notorious thefts, and unheard-of-cheats are set in a true light and exposed to public view, for the common benefit of mankind (G. Routledge & sons, ltd., 1926), by Alexander Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The lives and exploits of banditti and robbers in all parts of the world. (E. Bull, 1833), by Charles MacFarlane (page images at HathiTrust)
• El bandolerismo; estudio social y memorias históricas. (Impr. de T. Fortanet, 1876), by Julián Zugasti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Un pays de criminels-nés. (A. Storck, 1896), by Scipio Sighele (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Australian bushranging. (Angus, 1900), by Charles White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rise and fall of Jesse James (Blue ribbon books, 1939), by Robertus Love (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The outlaw years; the history of the land pirates of the Natchez Trace (The Literary Guild of America, 1930), by Robert M. Coates (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Sile Doty, 1800-1876 : the most noted thief and daring burglar of his time; a forgotten autobiography (Alved of Detroit, 1948), by Sile Doty, J. G. W. Colburn, and Randolph Greenfield Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• American bandits : a biographical history of the nation's outlaws--from the days of the James Boys, the Youngers, the Jennings, the Dalton Gang and Billy the Kid, down to modern bandits of our own day, including Dillinger, "Pretty Boy" Floyd, and others (Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1938), by Nancy Clemens and Haldeman-Julius Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives and exploits of English highwaymen, pirates and robbers : drawn from the earliest and most authentic sources, and brought down to the present time (E. L. Carey & A. Hart ;, 1835), by Charles Whitehead (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives and exploits of banditti and robbers in all parts of the world. (T. Tegg and son, 1837), by Charles Macfarlane (page images at HathiTrust)
• I banditi della Repubblica veneta. (R. Bemporad, 1896), by Pompeo Molmenti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Half-hours with the highwaymen : picturesque biographies and traditions of the "knights of the road" (Chapman & Hall, 1908), by Charles G. Harper and Paul Hardy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Highwaymen; a book of gallant rogues (R. M. McBride & Co., 1923), by Charles Joseph Finger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten weeks with Chinese bandits (Dodd, Mead and company, 1926), by Harvey James Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Belle Starr, "the Bandit Queen," the true story of the romantic and exciting career of the daring and glamorous lady famed in legend and story throughout the West...The true facts about the dastardly deeds and the come-uppence of such Dick Turpina, Robin Hoods and Rini Rinaldos as the Youngers, the Jameses, the Daltons, the Starrs, the Doolins and the Jenningses. The real story with court records and contemporary newspaper accounts and testimony of old nesters, here and there, in the Southwest. (Random house, 1941), by Burton Rascoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and adventures of Frank and Jesse James : the noted western out-laws (W. S. Bryan, 1880), by J. A. Dacus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ob istoricheskom znachenīi russkikh razboĭnichʹikh pi͡esen. (Tip. N.D. Golʹdshteĭn, 1875), by N. I͡A. Aristov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le brigandage en Italie depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours (E. Plon, 1875), by Armand Dubarry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives and exploits of English highwaymen, pirates, and robbers ([s.n.], 1883), by Charles Whitehead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Highwaymen; a book of gallant rogues. (R.M. McBride, 1925), by Charles Joseph Finger (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Collection of bandi from Siena, chiefly concerning banditti. (Siena, 1585), by Siena (Italy) (page images at HathiTrust)
• English travelers and Italian brigands. A narrative of capture and captivity. (Harper & Bros., 1866), by W. J. C. Moens and Anne Warlters Moens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches sur les incursions des Anglais et des Grandes Compagnies dans le duché et le comté de Bourgogne à la fin du XIVe siècle, précédées de considérations sur l'origine des Grandes Compagnies, leur diverses dénominations, leur influence au point de vue politique et militaire, etc. (Tup. de A. Suchaux, 1874), by Jules Finot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treasure express; epic days of the Wells Fargo, by Neill C. Wilson .. (New York, TheMacmillan Company, 1936), by Neill Compton Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives and exploits of the banditti and robbers of all nations (R.W. Pomeroy, 1836), by Charles MacFarlane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three months passed in the mountains east of Rome, during the year 1819. (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown; [etc., etc.], 1820), by Maria Callcott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives and exploits of the most noted highwaymen, robbers and murderers, of all nations, (Silas Andrus, 1854), by Charles Whitehead (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives and exploits of banditti and robbers in all parts of the world. (J. & J. Harper, 1833), by Charles MacFarlane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das wesen und treiben der gauner, diebe und betrüger Deutschlands, nebst angabe von maassregeln, sich gegen raub, diegbstahl und betrug zu schützen, und einem wörterbuche der diebessprache. (C.F. Schmidt, 1846), by Chr Rochlitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• I briganti celebri italiani (A. Salani, 1911), by Eugenio Rontini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia del bandolerismo y de la camorra en la Italia meridional, con las biografias de los guerrilleros catalanes Borges y Tristany (S. Manero, 1864), by Juan Mañé y Flaquer and Joaquin Mola y Martinez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and adventures of Frank and Jesse James (W. S. Bryan;, 1880), by Joseph A. Dacus (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives and exploits of the most noted robbers, buccaneers, and pirates of all countries. (F. Bell, 1846) (page images at HathiTrust)
• La cour de Rome, le brigandage et la convention franco-italienne (J.-B. Vasseur, 1865), by Armand Lévy, Jean Mickiewicz, France, and Italy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber Diebe und Diebesbanden. ([Hanover, 1807), by Amtschreiber Meier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great taxicab robbery (John Lane company, 1912), by James H. Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives and exploits of the most noted highwaymen, robbers and murderers, of all nations (S. Andrus & son, 1847), by Charles Whitehead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrated lives and adventures of Frank and Jesse James, and the Younger brothers (N. D. Thompson & co., 1881), by J. A. Dacus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives and exploits of English highwaymen, pirates, and robbers : drawn from the most authentic sources, and brought down to the present time (C. Daly, 1840), by Charles Whitehead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il brigantaggio nel Veterbese. Cenni storici dei briganti celebri che hanno scorrazzato nel Viterbese dal 1800 al 1893, con la descrizione delle operazioni della polizia negli ultimitempi. (Tip.-lit. dell' Indipendente, 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kansei no sanzoku ni torawarete : sōnan kinen (Mori Seitarō, 1917), by Seitarō Mori (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Balkan-Haiduken. Ein beitrag zur innern geschichte des Slawenthums. (F.A. Brockhaus, 1878), by Georg Rosen, Panaĭot Khitov, and Panajot Hitow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire des bandits et brigands célèbres anciens et modernes. (Librairie de Corbet Ainé, 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten days among Greek brigands; a true story. (Congregational Pub. Society, 1874), by Henry J. Van-Lennep (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les écorcheurs en Bourgogne, 1435-1445; étude sur les compagnies franches au XVe siècle. (Darantiere, 1888), by Joseph de Fréminville (page images at HathiTrust)
• An effectual scheme for the immediate preventing of street robberies and suppressing all other disorders of the night; with a brief history of the night-houses, and an appendix relating to those sons of hell, call'd incendiaries. (Printed for J. Wilford, 1731), by Daniel Defoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives and exploits of banditti and robbers in all parts of the world (E. Bull, 1833), by Charles MacFarlane (page images at HathiTrust)
• El rey de los bandidos; a o, Los secuestradores de Andalucia. Cuadros del bandolerismo por Rama on Ortega y Fra ias. (Juan Mua noz Sanchez, 1800), by Rama on Ortega y Fra ias (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leben und thaten der berümtesten strassen-und seeräuber, taschendiebe und betrüger in Grossbritanien. (Baumgärtner, 1817), by Charles Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die kumpane des Schinderhannes. Abenteuerliche geschichten aus dem rheinischen räuberleben. Aus geheimen notizen des offentlichen anklägers Keil und des tribunalrats Becker. (F. Harrach, 1894) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and adventures of Frank and Jesse James, the noted western outlaws. (F.L. Horton, 1880), by J. A. Dacus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kostanzer Hanss : eine schwäbische Jauners-Geschichte, aus zuverlässigen Quellen geschöpft und pragmatisch bearbeitet. (Erhart und Löflund, 1789), by Johann Ulrich Schoell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia de el bandalismo en el estado de Morelos. Ayer como ahora! 1860! "Plateados!" 1911! "Zapatistas!" (Tip. guadalupana, 1912), by Lamberto Popoca y Palacios (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life and adventures of the celebrated bandit, Joaquin Murrieta, his exploits in the state of California (Regan Pub. Corp., 1925), by Ireneo Paz and Frances P. Belle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vicente Silva and his forty thieves : the vice criminals of the 80's and 90's. ([Las Vegas, N.M.?], 1960), by Tom McGrath (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Outlaw days ; a true history of early-day Oklahoma characters. (Harlow publishing company, 1926), by Zoe Agnes Stratton Tilghman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Het boek der rabauwen en naaktridders; bijdragen tot de studie van het volksleven der 16e en 17e eeuwen. ("De Tijd", 1917), by Victor de Meyere (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les brigands ... (Hachette et cie, 1904), by Frantz Funck-Brentano (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Legends of highwaymen and others collected by the late R. Blakeborough (Frederick A. Stokes company, 1924), by Richard Blakenorough and John Fairfax Blakeborough (page images at HathiTrust)
• Train robberies, train robbers and the "holdup" men; address ([New York?, 1907), by William Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Master highwaymen (The Macaulay Company, 1927), by Joseph Gollomb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stand and deliver; the story of the highwaymen. (W. W. Norton and Co., Inc., 1950), by Patrick Pringle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives and exploits of English highwaymen, pirates, and robbers : drawn from the most authentic sources, by Capt. Charles Johnson (H. G. Bohn, 1842), by Charles Whitehead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carmen (London : Hutchinson & Co., [1916], 1916), by Prosper Mérimée, René Bull, and A. E. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Great Taxicab Robbery: A True Detective Story, by James H. Collins (Gutenberg ebook)
• Half-hours with the Highwaymen - Vol 2: Picturesque Biographies and Traditions of the "Knights of the Road", by Charles G. Harper, illust. by Paul Hardy (Gutenberg ebook)
• Half-hours with the Highwaymen - Vol 1: Picturesque Biographies and Traditions of the "Knights of the Road", by Charles G. Harper, illust. by Paul Hardy (Gutenberg ebook)
• Life and adventures of Frank and Jesse James, the noted western outlaws, by J. A. Dacus (Gutenberg ebook)

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