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Bad Company begins with Joaquin Murieta, whose myth started in the early 1850s and who remains California's most glamorous outlaw. Then there's the story of Dick Fellows, who would have been a quarter of a million dollars richer if it hadn't been for a horse. And Tom Bell, whom the historian H. H. Bancroft called the most "intelligent, accomplished and kind-hearted American gentleman who ever took the road in California." The fascinating account of Black Bart, whose terrifying reputation spread far and wide, includes samples of the poetry he left in treasure boxes he had emptied. Sheet-Iron Jack, an erstwhile barber; the brutal Juan Soto; Tiburcio Vasquez, a lady-killer whose career impressed Robert Louis Stevenson; Jack Powers, who held the village of Santa Barbara in the hollow of his hand; and Juan Flores, who stages a full-scale "revolution" and some other members of his goodly bad company.
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Amy Measel
reviewed Bad Company: The Story of California's Legendary and Actual Stage-Robbers, Bandits, Highwaymen and Outlaws from the Fifties to the Eighties on November 27, 2007
Bad Company: The Story of California's Legendary and Actual Stage-Robbers, Bandits, Highwaymen and Outlaws from the Fifties to the Eighties
This is vintage Woodworth, right down to his penchant for finding nothing right with those he dislikes, in this case Johnston (deservedly in most regards), Beauregard (unfairly), and Longstreet (because he hated Saint Bragg of the Woodworth order of historians). In spite of this and the book's overwrought concentration upon detailed correspondence and meetings, a nuanced portrait of Davis and Lee emerges. This might have been the strangest command duo in American history. They thought differently on how to fight the war yet they had warm relations and a cast-iron mutual respect. This is where the book shines. Indeed, it is the best picture we have of Davis as commander in chief, since he is shown at his best and worst. Now it is up to another, more even-minded historian, to expand on that point. This one though is too bogged down in details and Woodworth's historical vendettas to suffice.
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