People/Characters Sam Bass
Works (24)
- Catlow by Louis L'Amour
- The American Songbag by Carl Sandburg
- American Ballads and Folk Songs by John A. Lomax
- Folk Song USA by John A. Lomax
- The Viking Book of Folk Ballads of the English-Speaking World by Albert B. Friedman
- Penguin Dictionary of American Folklore by Alan Ph.D. Axelrod
- A Treasury of Nebraska Pioneer Folklore by Roger L. Welsch
- American Murder Ballads and Their Stories by Olive Woolley Burt
- Songs of the Cowboys by N. Howard Thorp
- Cowboy Poetry by Julie Saffel
- Bawdy Ballads and Lusty Lyrics by John Henry Johnson
- A Sketch of Sam Bass, the Bandit: A Graphic Narrative : His Various Train Robberies, His Death, and Accounts of the Death of His Gang and Their History by Charles L. Martin
- Sam Bass & Gang by Rick Miller
- American ballads and songs by Louise Pound
- Cowboy and Western Songs by Austin E. Fife
- Songs of the Great American West (Dover Song Collections) by Irwin Silber
- He Was Singin' This Song: A Collection of Forty-eight Traditional Songs of the American Cowboy, with Words, Music, Pictures, and Stories by Jim Bob Tinsley
- Native American balladry, a descriptive study and a bibliographical syllabus by G. Malcolm Laws
- Outlaw Tales of Nebraska: True Stories Of The Cornhusker State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And Cutthroats by T. D. Griffith
- Ozark Folksongs: British Ballads and Songs, Vol. 1 (British Ballads & Songs) by Vance Randolph
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| Description | Sam Bass (1851?-1878). Outlaw and train robber. Mortally wounded in a shootout with police on July 20, 1878, he died in custody two days later. He became the subject of a famous song, "Sam Bass," item E4 in Malcolm Law's catalog of Native American Ballads. |