Texas Bandits

Real to Reel

By: Mona Sizer

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Paperback | 24 February 2004

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Citing the adage that those who do not study history are condemned to get it from Hollywood, popular historian Mona Sizer profiles a dozen notorious Texas outlaws and how they have been portrayed on the Silver Screen. From Pancho Villa - who was paid $25,000 by the Mutual Film Company to portray himself - to Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow (portrayed by Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty), Sizer separates fact from fancy in a fun, rollicking look at the bad guys of Texas Westerns. Sidebars (How to Rob a Train, How to Hold Up a Stagecoach, and The Hollywood Posse) round out this delightful homage to actual and movie bandits alike.

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Tales of the bandits' lives cut to the chase, just like a good director. * Valley Morning Star *
Sizer's books pull no punches while she uncovers racy details about the rich and famous. * Valley Town Crier *
Pairing facts with film myths, Texas Bandits shows how Hollywood artfully reinvented the lives of renowned bandits. Sizer's book pays intriguing and humorous homage to legendary bandits and their frivolous filmmakers. -- Green, Cynthia * True West *
Sizer's book pays intriguing and humorous homage to legendary bandits and their frivolous filmmakers.

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A word about the westerns
Traveling through
Pancho Villa	p. 3
Viva Villa!	p. 24
Bandits and ballads	p. 28
Jean Lafitte	p. 33
The buccaneer	p. 48
The kith and kin of Jesse James	p. 53
American outlaws	p. 72
Badman's territory	p. 80
How to rob a train	p. 85
Gone to Texas
Belle Starr, the bandit queen	p. 91
Montana Belle	p. 106
Sam Bass	p. 111
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass	p. 125
How to hold up a stagecoach	p. 129
Juan Nepomuceno Cortina	p. 135
One man's hero	p. 145
Judge Roy Bean	p. 149
The westerner	p. 162
How illiterate were the bandits?	p. 165
Born and bred in the light of the lone star
John Wesley Hardin	p. 169
The lawless breed	p. 179
The Hollywood posse	p. 184
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow	p. 187
Bonnie and Clyde	p. 201
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