Research Catalog

Title

Desperado from Cowboy Flat : the saga of "Zip" Wyatt / by Glenn Shirley.

Author

Shirley, Glenn.

Publication

Stillwater, Okla. : Barbed Wire Press, c1997.

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Details

Description

x, 143 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"During the 1890s, when the ranks of the Dalton and Doolin gangs were being thinned by the powder and ball of lawmen and citizen posses, Oklahoma Territory boasted that the day had passed when a man could be an active outlaw for any length of time, and its good people anticipated a life free of such apprehension and terror. But even as Dalton and Doolin gang members were killed or prison bars closed behind them, others sprang up as candidates for their place in the new frontier's criminal history. Among these was Nathaniel Ellsworth Wyatt, aka "Zip" Wyatt, alias Dick Yeager. He possessed great physical strength and endurance, good markmanship and stead nerve in tight places, and it required nearly three years and more than usual force to crush him. His final pursuit by some 1,000 farmers and others lasted 125 days. His principal forces were all killed or captured before him, and his last stand was single-handed and alone."--Publisher's description.

Subjects

• Biographies
• Oklahoma > Biography
• Frontier and pioneer life > Oklahoma
• Outlaws > Oklahoma > Biography
• Wyatt, Nathaniel Ellsworth, 1864-1895

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Outlaw breeding ground -- First blood -- "And I have this for you!" -- The Wyatt-Black gang rides -- Their women captured -- "We had to fight back" -- Ike Black falls & Zip Wyatt breaks corn -- Last stand on the skeleton -- A hard way to die.

ISBN

0935269258

LCCN

^^^97046094^

OCLC

• 37980751
• SCSB-12583181

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library