![]() They feature life history narratives of places, characters, and events of the Wild West during the late 1800s. Stories of outlaws later provided plots for many of our favorite Western movies.īetween 19, field workers in the Federal Writers’ Project (a part of the government-funded Works Progress Administration, or WPA, later called Work Projects Administration) collected and wrote down many accounts that provide an authentic and vivid picture of outlaws in the early days of New Mexico. When outlaws reigned, bank holdups, shoot-outs, and murders were a common occurrence death by hanging became a favored means of settling disputes by outlaws and vigilantes alike. Singly or in gangs, they held up stagecoaches and trains and stole from prospectors and settlers. ![]() In between forays, notorious outlaws were sometimes exemplary cowboys. Feared by many, loved by some, their exploits were both horrifying and legendary. Such colorful characters as Black Jack Ketchum, the Apache Kid, Curly Bill, Devil Dick, Billy the Kid, Bill McGinnis, Vicente Silva and his gang, the Dalton Brothers, and the Wild Bunch terrorized the land. In the early days of the American West, outlaws dominated the New Mexico Territory. Stories about outlaws and desperados of the Old West from writers in the Federal Writers’ Project in New Mexico between 19. A New Mexico Federal Writers’ Project Bookīy Ann Lacy and Anne Valley-Fox, compilers and editors
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