by Tamsin Spargo · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780747577072
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«Wanted Man» is the biography of Oliver Curtis Perry written by Tamsin Spargo, published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc in paperback (256 pages, in English).
In 1891, Oliver Curtis Perry robbed the American Express train in New York wearing a red hood and carrying two pistols, and vanished with the loot. The charismatic thief became the most wanted man in the country, adored by the public; after repeating the robbery he was captured, and in prison he stood out as an escape artist, hunger striker and poet.
The book, published in 2005, falls under the categories of Literature and Fiction and History; its full subtitle is «The Forgotten Story of Oliver Curtis Perry, an American Outlaw».
For readers of biographies and historical chronicles, especially those interested in outlaws, train robberies and late nineteenth-century America.
