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| The Wild Bunch 1900 - Sundance sitting far left & Butch Cassidy sitting far right. |
I'm so excited to have started this site dedicated to my children's/middle-grade action/adventure novel OUTLAW HEROES. Outlaw Heroes is a fun adventure novel set in the old west and includes real-life characters such as Butch Cassidy, The Sundance Kid, Etta Place and many more. Check out the page tab above or click here to read more about the book description of Outlaw Heroes.
What will I be writing about on this site? I will be sharing with you more information about each character from the novel as well as interesting stories about the old west and about places where the old west still comes alive every day!
The old west is a unique and interesting time period in the history of the United States. No other country experienced such a time in their history as we did from the mid-1800s until the early 1900s. While people in the east were living civilized, productive lives, the west was as wild as a newborn colt, building itself from the ground up with ranches, farms, gold mines and anything else that a man could do to support himself and his family. It was also a lawless land, where lawmen were few and far between and every man carried a weapon to protect himself from those who would do him harm or take what he had. This made it a breeding ground for men of chance - gamblers, speculators, rustlers and train and bank robbers - to take what they wanted and run and hide out when necessary. And sometimes it was hard to tell who was the good guy and who was the bad guy as lawmen turned into outlaws and outlaws into lawmen.
Unfortunately, stories from this period in our history have been brushed aside, being replaced by aliens, witches, wizards, vampires, werewolves, and spacemen. Children rarely read stories of the old west anymore or even know famous names such as Wild Bill, Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill Cody, Calamity Jane, and of course, Butch Cassidy. Yet their stories are interesting ones and should be retold and preserved through time.
I hope you enjoy reading more about the characters of the old west, especially the characters in my novel, Outlaw Heroes. So let's get on with it!
Enjoy the ride!
Deanna
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