Outlaw Ballads Legends & Lore Includes Outright Insults & Frontier Etiquette SC

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Soft Cover

By Wayne Erbsen

65 Pages

If all his brains were dynamite, there wouldnt be enough to blow his nose.

Outlaws died hard. Though their bones were long ago laid to rest in Boot Hill graveyards, their legacy lives on in the ballads, the legends, and the lore.

Outlaws. The word itself seethes with visions of fierce and reckless desperados armed to the teeth and rushing headlong into trouble. This wild breed of men and women had their day in frontier America from the end of the Civil War until the 1890's. Like the hair triggers on their six-guns, they were walking sticks of dynamite, ready to explode without much notice. But outlaws were not alone in being edgy Many of the men and women who ventured into the frontier had a restless spirit. Impetuous, fearless, not afraid to take risks...no wonder the West was wild! This independent breed of men and women often yielded to temptation to break the law in a land which scarcely had law. The timid stayed behind to mind the store.

Like the outlaws themselves, outlaw ballads pack a pretty fair punch. In lyrics and music they tell the unvarnished tales of daring and often tragic lives. Those who composed the ballads were far from impartial when wielding their pens. Many had a score to settle, a wrong to right, a moral to deliver.

Many of the outlaw songs had their roots in England and Ireland. These ancient ballads told tales of robbers, poachers, thieves and murderers who often paid for even minor crimes with their "heads." Like the badmen themselves, European ballads were restless and many traveled to America where they gained a new identity.

The outlaw ballads have helped to keep alive the memory of these bad men and women and the days in which they lived better than faded newspaper clippings, or dusty books. As long as they are sung, the outlaws live. Listen! You can hear the shooting, smell the gunsmoke, and taste the whiskey.

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