By Larry L. Massey
ISBN-10: 0813061202
ISBN-13: 9780813061207
For over a yr, Railroad invoice eluded sheriffs, deepest detectives employed by way of the L&N line, and bounty hunters who traveled around the nation to compare weapons with the mythical desperado. The African American outlaw was once sought after on a number of fees of theft and homicide, and rumor had it that he stole from the wealthy to provide to the bad. He terrorized busy educate strains from east of cellular to the Florida Panhandle, yet once the lawmen obtained shut, he disappeared into the bayous and pine forests--until at some point his good fortune ran out, and he was once gunned down inside of a common shop in Atmore, Alabama.
Little is understood approximately Railroad invoice prior to his infamy--not his actual identify or his origins. His first recorded crime, sporting a repeating rifle with out a license, led him right into a gunfight with a deputy and made him a sought after guy all through Florida in 1894. His such a lot celebrated escape--a five-day foot chase with rankings of guys and a number of other bloodhounds--led to stories of Railroad's supernatural skill to transmogrify into an animal or inanimate item at will. As his crimes improved from robbing boxcars to wounding trainmen to murdering sheriffs, an increasing number of gift cash used to be provided for his capture--dead or alive.
Today, Railroad invoice is the topic of many folks songs popularized through singers equivalent to Paul McCartney, Taj Mahal, Gillian Welch, and Ramblin' Jack Elliot. yet who used to be he? the place did he come from? What occasions ended in his murderous spree? And why did a few view him as a hero?
In Railroad Bill, Larry Massey separates truth from delusion and teases out elusive truths from tall stories to finally demonstrate the guy in the back of the bandit's mask.
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