The Saga of Henry Starr

by Robert J. Conley

Recounts the adventures early life of the legendary outlaw Henry Starr

177 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1989

About the author

Robert J. Conley was a Cherokee author and enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, a federally recognized tribe of American Indians. In 2007, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas.

Reviews

[Ron · Rating 4 out of 5]

The mythology of bank robbers has long seized the public imagination. It’s as American somehow as apple pie and Fourth of July fireworks. Henry Starr was one of the most remarkable of them, for both longevity and tenacity. He was also a professional. A Henry Starr robbery was clean and well organized, a job well done, with a minimum of fuss. At the end of his career, he was believed to have robbed more banks than anyone in history.

If he was better at anything besides bank robbery, it was doing time in prison. There he was always a model prisoner and a frequenter of the prison library. Such behavior invariably won him early parole. Once he volunteered to disarm another prisoner who’d somehow got his hands on a loaded gun. For that kind of bravery, he got a pardon from none other than President Theodore Roosevelt. . .

Read my review at my blog.

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