Contents: Part I. Traveling through -- Pancho Villa -- "Viva Villa" -- Bandits and ballads -- Jean Lafitte -- "The buccaneer" -- The kith and kin of Jesse James -- "American outlaws" -- "Badman's territory" -- How to rob a train -- Part II. Gone to Texas -- Belle Starr -- "Montana Belle" -- Sam Bass -- "Calamity Jane and Sam Bass" -- How to hold up a stagecoach -- Cheno Cortina -- "One man's hero" -- Judge Roy Bean -- "The westerner" -- How illiterate were the bandits? -- Part III. Born and bred in the light of the Lone Star -- John Wesley Hardin -- "The lawless breed" -- The Hollywood posse -- Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow -- "Bonnie and Clyde".
