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1 online resource (320 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE-The Father of Highwaymen -- CHAPTER TWO-The Man from Dunstable -- CHAPTER THREE-Amateurs and Professionals -- CHAPTER FOUR-Strictly Business -- CHAPTER FIVE-Gay Cavaliers -- CHAPTER SIX-The Prince of Prigs -- CHAPTER SEVEN-Wicked Ladies -- CHAPTER EIGHT-The Broad Highways -- CHAPTER NINE-Restoration -- CHAPTER TEN-Confessions of a Highwayman -- CHAPTER ELEVEN-A Very Gallant Gentleman -- CHAPTER TWELVE-The Golden Farmer -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN-Old Mob -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN-The Yorkshire Robber -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN-Who Rode to York? -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN-War Criminals -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN-In Old Newgate -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN-"So You Won't Talk?" -- CHAPTER NINETEEN-Concerning the Ordinary -- CHAPTER TWENTY-The Road to Tyburn -- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE-Jonathan Wild the Great -- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO-The Real Dick Turpin -- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE-Gentlemen of the Road -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR-The Arm of the Law -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE-William Page and the Weston Brothers -- CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX-Sixteen String Jack -- CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN-Jerry Abershaw and Galloping Dick -- CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT-The Last of the Highwaymen -- EPITOME -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER |
| Summary |
Annotation The true story of the highwaymen has never been written, nor can it be. The chroniclers were slavishly faithful to their authorities--flatteringly so, in fact; for these authorities consisted of a lot of chapbooks, broadsheets, penny dreadfuls and twopenny bloods, "dying confessions" that had come in for a good deal of posthumous editing, and the contemporary gutter Press--which was even more unreliable then than it is today. Many of these 'authorities' were so contradictory that the truth-at-all-costs chroniclers left out some of the best bits of highway lore in their vain attempts to keep faithful to their ridiculous principles. Our own ambition is more modest. We have not sought the El Dorado of absolute truth. We have gone back to the same sources that the chroniclers used--and we have taken pains to ignore the latter gentlemen whenever contemporary reports are still extant. We have not moralized, like the chroniclers, nor have we embellished, like the novelists. We have added nothing--but we have taken away a good deal. We have tried to use our discretion in selection, and our judgment in discrimination between contradictory versions of the same events. Since it was impossible to be faithful to the letter, we have tried to recapture the spirit of the Age of Highwaymen |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Brigands and robbers.
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Brigands and robbers
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781787202122 |
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1787202127 |
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