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• The border outlaws an authentic and thrilling history of the most noted bandits of ancient or modern times : the Younger brothers, Jesse and Frank James and their comrades in crime (Historical Pub. Co., 1881), by J. W. Buel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Through the Shadows With O. Henry (New York: H. K. Fly Co., c1921), by Al Jennings
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• Frank og Jesse James (Kristiania : Forlagt af B. Omtvedt, 1888., 1888) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The James boys : a complete and accurate account of these famous bandit brothers, Frank and Jesse James : an authentic account of their noted band of bank plunderers, train robbers and murderers : illustrated from photos. (Chicago, Ill. : J. Regan & Co., 415 Dearborn St., [approximately 1910], 1910) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The record of crimes in the United States : containing a brief sketch of the prominent traits in the character and conduct of many of the most notorious malefactors, who have been guilty of capital offences; and who have been detected and convicted (H. Faxon & Co., 1833) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life of the notorious desperado, Cullen Baker, from his childhood to his death, with a full account of all the murders he committed. (Price and Barton, printers, 1870), by Thomas Orr (page images at HathiTrust)

• Vida y Aventuras del Más Célebre Bandido Sonorense, Joaquín Murrieta, y Sus Grandes Proezas en el Estado de California (sixth edition, in Spanish; Los Angeles: C. G. Vincent and Co., 1923), by Ireneo Paz
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• A pardoned lifer ; life of George Sontag, former member notorious Evans-Sontag gang, train robbers ([The Index Print], 1909), by George Sontag and Opie L. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hanging the Sheriff: A Biography of Henry Plummer, by R. E. Mather and F. E. Boswell (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Life of the notorious desperado, Cullen Baker, from his childhood to his death, with a full account of all the murders he committed. (Price and Barton, printers, 1870), by Thomas Orr (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life of the celebrated mail robber and daring highwayman, Joseph Thompson Hare : who committed depredations in the cities of New York and Philadelphia to the amount of nearly ninety thousand dollars ; also, of the cruel and ferocious pirate, Alexander Tardy. (J.B. Perry, 1844) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of piracy (Naval War College Press ;, 1988), by Alfred P. Rubin and Naval War College (U.S.). Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• United States criminal calendar (C. Gaylord, 1840), by Henry St. Clair (page images at HathiTrust)

• The mystery of Castlegreen : a Louisiana romance (Broadway Publishing Company, 1913), by Duke (page images at HathiTrust)

• By the governour and Council assembled at Boston the 2d. of April, 1685. To all His Majesties subjects within the government of the Massachusets colony. ([Boston : Printed by Samuel Green, 1685]), by Massachusetts (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The Trials of eight persons indited for piracy &c. Of whom two were acquitted, and the rest found guilty. At a justiciary Court of Admiralty assembled and held in Boston within His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, on the 18th of October 1717. And by several adjournments continued to the 30th. Pursuant to His Majesty's commission and instruction, founded on the act of Parliament made in the 11th. & 12th of King William IIId. Intituled, An act for the more effectual suppression of piracy. : With an appendix, containing the substance of their confessions given before His Excellency the governour, when they were first brought to Boston, and committed to goal. (Boston: : Printed by B. Green, for John Edwards, and sold at his shop in King's Street., 1718), by Simon Van Vorst and Massachusetts. Court of Admiralty (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The Trials of five persons for piracy, felony and robbery, who were found guilty and condemned, at a Court of Admiralty for the trial of piracies, felonies and robberies, committed on the high seas, held at the court-house in Boston, within His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, on Tuesday the fourth day of October, anno domini, 1726. Pursuant to His Majesty's royal commission, founded on an act of Parliament made in the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of King William the Third, entituled, An act for the more effectual suppression of piracy; and made perpetual by an act of the sixth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord King George. (Boston: : Printed by T. Fleet, for S. Gerrish, at the lower end of Cornhill., 1726), by John Baptist Jedre and Massachusetts. Court of Admiralty (HTML at Evans TCP)

• The converted sinner. The nature of a conversion to real and vital piety: and the manner in which it is to be pray'd & striv'n for. : A sermon preached in Boston, May 31, 1724. In the hearing and at the desire of certain pirates, a little before their execution. : To which there is added, a more private conference of a minister with them. ; [Two lines of quotation] (Boston: : Printed for Nathaniel Belknap, and sold at his shop the corner of Scarletts-Wharff., 1724), by Cotton Mather (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Dungeon Rock; or, the pirate's cave, at Lynn, by N. S. Emerson (Gutenberg ebook)

• Act for restraining and punishing privateers and pyrates ([New York : Printed by William Bradford, 1693]), by New York (State) (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Act for restraining and punishing privateers and pyrates ([New York : Printed by William Bradford, 1692]), by New York (State) (HTML at Evans TCP)
• By His Excellency Richard Earl of Bellomont, captain general and governour in chief of His Majesties province of New-York ... A proclamation[.] Whereas several of His Majesties subjects have of late years departed from the allegiance they owe unto His Majesty, and have thereupon confederated together, and in hostile manner have fitted out ships and vessels of war, under the pretence of going against the French ... Given at Fort William Henry the nineth day of May, 1698 ... ([New York] : Printed and sold by William Bradford, printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty in the city of New-York,, 1698), by New York (State). Governor (1698-1701 : Bellomont) and Richard Coote Bellomont (HTML at Evans TCP)
• His Excellency the Earl of Bellomont his speech to the representatives of His Majesties province of New-York, the 19th of May, 1698. ([New York] : Printed and sold by William Bradford, printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, in the city of New-York,, 1698), by New York (State). Governor (1698-1701 : Bellomont), Richard Coote Bellomont, and New York (State). General Assembly (HTML at Evans TCP)
• By the Honourable John Nanfan, Esq; lieutenant governour and commander in chief of His Majesties province of New-York ... A proclamation[.] Whereas James Gillam, a notorious pyrate, said to have murdered Capt. Edgecomb ... Given at Fort William Henry in New-York the 29th day of August, 1699 ... ([New York : Printed by William Bradford, 1699]), by New York (State). Lieutenant Governor (1697-1702 : Nanfan) and John Nanfan (HTML at Evans TCP)

• An act for restraining and punishing privateers and pyrates ([New York : William Bradford, 1693]), by New York (State) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Buccaneers and pirates of our coasts (The Macmillan Co., 1898), by Frank Richard Stockton (page images at HathiTrust)

• By the proprietary of the province of Pennsylvania, and counties annexed with the advice of the Council, a proclamation Whereas several piracies and robberies at sea and on sea-coasts have of late years been committed ... Given ... at Philadelphia the 23d. day of the tenth month ... 1699. (Philadelphia : Printed by Reinier Jansen, 1699), by Pennsylvania. Governor (1699-1701 : Penn) and William Penn (HTML at Evans TCP)

• The man of the forest; a novel (Harper & Brothers, 1920), by Zane Grey and Frank Tenney Johnson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1927), by Walter Noble Burns (page images at HathiTrust)

• Last raid of the Daltons and battle with the bandits at Coffeyville, Kansas, Oct. 5, 1892. (Coffeyville Historical Museum, 1954), by David Stewart Elliott (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life of Pat F. Garrett and the taming of the border outlaw : a history of the "gun men" and outlaws, and a life-story of the greatest sheriff of the old Southwest (J.J. Lipsey, 1952), by John Milton Scanland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life of Pat F. Garrett : and the taming of the border outlaw : a history of the gun men and outlaws, and a life-story of the greatest sheriff of the old Southwest (Southwestern Print. Co., 1952), by John Milton Scanland (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the Doans (John B. Perry, No. 881/2 North Second Street;, 1843), by Henry K. Brooke, John B. Perry, and Nafis & Cornish (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rube Burrow, the outlaw : a book of thrilling adventure and desperate deeds, narrating actual facts as obtained from principals and eyewitnesses (I. & M. Ottenheimer, 1908), by Paul E. Lowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Texas vendetta (Frontier Press of Texas, 1956), by Victor M. Rose (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sam Bass and Company (New York: New American Library, 1960), by Will C. Brown (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger: A Story of Frontier Reform, by Albert Bigelow Paine, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt (Gutenberg ebook)

• Robbers' Roost (1930-1932), by Zane Grey (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Balkan freebooter; being the true exploits of the Serbian outlaw and comitaj Petko Moritch, told by him to the author and set into English (E. P. Dutton & co., 1916), by Jan Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Under the black flag (Lockard publishing company, 1914), by Kit Dalton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Crittenden memoirs. (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1936), by Henry Huston Crittenden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Desperate men; revelations from the sealed Pinkerton files. (Doubleday, 1962), by James D. Horan (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; US access only)
• Full account of the actions of the late famous pyrate, Capt. Kidd. (Scribner, 1853), by William W. Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bad man of the West (The Naylor company, 1941), by George David Hendricks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hands up! Stories of the six-gun fighters of the old wild West (Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1927), by Fred E. Sutton and A. B. Macdonald (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Balkan freebooter; being the true exploits of the Serbian outlaw and comitaj Petko Moritch, told by him to the author and set into English (Smith, Elder & co., 1916), by Jan Gordon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Badmen of the frontier days (McBride, 1957), by Carl W. Breihan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the outlaw : a study of the Western desperado (Grosset & Dunlap, 1907), by Emerson Hough (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the outlaw : a study of the western desperado, with historical narratives of famous outlaws; the stories of noted border wars; vigilante movements and armed conflicts on the frontier (A. L. Burt Co., 1907), by Emerson Hough (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dalton gang. (Hastings House, 1963), by Harold Preece (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)
• Oklahombres : particularly the wilder ones ([St. Louis], 1929), by Evett Dumas Nix and Gordon Hines (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Texas gun lore. (Naylor Co., 1951), by Carroll C. Holloway (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Helldorado, bringing the law to the mesquite (Houghton Mifflin, 1928), by William M. Breakenridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The James boys : a complete and accurate account of these famous bandit brothers, Frank and Jesse James : an authentic account of their noted band of bank plunderers, train robbers and murderers : illustrated from photos. (Chicago, Ill. : J. Regan & Co., 415 Dearborn St., [approximately 1910], 1910) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daring Davy, the young bear killer, or, The trail of the border wolf (New York : Beadle and Adams, No. 98 William Street, 1879., 1879), by Harry St. George and Beadle and Adams (1872-1898) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The truth about Jesse James (L.B. Dill and R. Turilli, 1955), by Phyllis Argall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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