bandit heaven: the hole-in-the-wall gangs and the final chapter of the wild west

＂Robbers Roost, Brown’s Hole, and Hole in the Wall were three hideouts that collectively were known to outlaws as ’Bandit Heaven.’ During the 1880s and ’90s these remote locations in Wyoming and Utah harbored hundreds of train and bank robbers, horse and cattle thieves, the occasional killer, and anyone else with a price on his head. Clavin’s Bandit Heaven is the ... story of these tumultuous times and the colorful characters who rode the Outlaw Trail through the frigid mountain passes and throat-parching deserts that connected the three hideouts--well-guarded enclaves no sensible lawman would enter. There are the ’star’ residents like gregarious Butch Cassidy and his mostly silent sidekick the Sundance Kid, and an array of ... supporting players like the cold-blooded Kid Curry, the gang leader, and ’Black Jack’ Ketchum (who had the dubious distinction of being decapitated during a hanging), among others＂--